Ordinarily, if you want to change the shape in which an object is 3D-printed, you have to alter the computer model that tells the printer what to do. A new and simpler technique, however, allows the ...

Discover the benefits that 3D food printing has brought to the way we eat. 3D-printed meat, unique recipes, desserts, and ...

See how an autonomous robot created a shock-absorbing shape no human ever could -- and what it means for designing safer helmets, packaging, car bumpers, and more. Inside a lab in Boston University's ...

The concept of 4D printing isn't a new idea, but processes that use new types of environmental stimuli keep on appearing. 4D printing is usually defined as 3D printing with materials that change shape ...

( Nanowerk News) Nature is replete with slender filaments that bend and coil – from climbing grape vines, to folded proteins, ...