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Researchers at a Chinese university have printed live human liver cells with high rate of success, ensuring that 90 percent of the cells leave the printer alive.

MIT designers laid 6,500 silkworms on top of a specially constructed framework and let them do what they do. Such “biological swarms” could someday be used to “print” structures organically.

People spend a lot of time trying to think about how to connect abstract concepts to real life.  3D printers open up a whole new possibility.  

Mass manufacturing is absolutely here to stay, but 3D printing will have a subtle but significant long-term impact on the economy. 

Being an engineer is not just about being able to calculate and analyze. It’s a whole spectrum of skills.

Researchers at MIT modeled the inside of a bone and used software to create a design that could be read by a 3D printer. The resulting lightweight composite could be used in several different applications.

It’s not quite a “Star Trek” holodeck, but two junior doctors based in London have developed a way to display 3D animated graphics of body parts on an auditorium stage.

A Wisconsin engineer has used a schematic briefly released online earlier this month to design a working prototype with a US$1,725 3D printer and $25 worth of plastic. 

Amid the controversy surrounding 3D printed firearms, writer Cory Doctorow fears that the larger discussions regarding regulation of new and potentially problematic technologies will be clouded over by arguments over gun rights.

The first 3D-printed “Wiki Weapon” known as the Liberator is fired off. 

We may soon find out: NASA just gave Systems & Materials Research Corporation a six-month, $125,000 grant to develop a working prototype of a food synthesizer.

The Monster Dreamer uses a sensor-equipped headset to interpret children’s reactions to various creatures and create a 3D-printed toy that contains the features they find most interesting.

Ford engineer Zach Nelson’s 21st-century creation combines hardware and software to let the newbie driver know when it’s time to shift gears.

What would it look like to fly through the distant universe? The video below is a 3-D model of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), one of the most distant fields of galaxies ever imaged. 

Of all of the applications for additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, food tends to be the most universally popular. 

Biologists at Princeton University have used 3-D printing technology to create a bionic ear capable of detecting frequencies one million times higher than the normal range of hearing.

Today’s “blacksmith” is a skilled designer/3-D Printer with highly developed skills in CAD design who is able to help locals prototype and create custom products that they concept for various uses.

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk – recently named by TED’s Chris Anderson as one of the most innovative thinkers in the world today – is at it again, this time with a plan […]

Among several companies that have announced plans to bring 3D scanning to the masses is Toronto-based Matterform, which is offering a portable device for less than the cost of some tablets.

The power and agility of our brain was by no means necessary to hunt and kill animals, so why did the thinking organ become such an overachiever?

A single Eyefly 3D protector contains 500,000 tiny lenses — each the size of a single pixel — that create the illusion of depth by sending separate display data to each eye.

This is your brain on rye.

At least that’s the claim being made by a new study: The likelihood of a red dwarf star housing a habitable super-Earth increases significantly when cloud behavior is considered.

Bill Westheimer’s current Kickstarter project, called Ascent: the evolution of analog man to digital man, imagines how man’s future evolution might happen, and what we might become. 

What would people use a 3-D printer at home for? Probably for making things that are consumable that they need on demand.

The field of 3D printing is advancing rapidly due to a convergence of technologies, or what might be called “a perfect storm.”

Launched via a 35-day crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, Matterform blasted through its initial fundraising goal of $81K in 1 week and has raised over $460K. With 4 days left to go, the company announced that it has outgrown its production facility and decided to add color scanning to what is the world’s 1st affordable home 3D scanner product (currently $599).

MIT’s Solar System software combines several sources of data to create a map that can predict the annual yield of a panel array installed at a given location.

When you think of a prosthetic limb, the first thing that comes to mind is not beauty. After all, these are products that are made by engineers, not designers. 

What would people use a 3-D printer at home for? Probably for making things that are consumable that they need on demand.