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Scientists at Osaka University in Japan have managed to print lab-grown steak that greatly resembles products made from Wagyu cattle.

Japanese Scientists 3D Print Lab-Grown Wagyu Steak

By Victor Tangermann

Coating the platters of a high-density hard drive with graphene instead of a carbon-based overcoat results in ten times the storage capacity.

Graphene Hard Drives Store Ten Times as Much Data

By Dan Robitzski

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This Futuristic Robot Arm Is a 3D Printer, Laser Engraver, and Much More

Spanish police raided a warehouse, full of white supremacist literature and guerilla warfare manuals, where someone was 3D printing guns and bombs.

Police Raided Factory Churning Out Black Market 3D Printed Weapons

By Dan Robitzski

Rancho Mirage, California will soon become home to the first neighborhood made entirely of 3D-printed houses in the United States.

An Entire 3D-Printed Neighborhood Is Springing Up in a California Desert

By Dan Robitzski

Nanoprobes called bioharmonophores can seek out and bind to cancer cells, making them glow brightly under medical scanners.

Cancer-Hunting Nanotech Makes Tumors Light Up

By Dan Robitzski

A group that dispenses instructions on how to 3D print functional guns at home is about to release an upgraded assault rifle.

You Can Now 3D Print an Entire Semi-Automatic Rifle at Home

By Dan Robitzski

There's a nearly impenetrable fog of hype surrounding graphene batteries. But it turns out the technology has a whole lot of promise, too.

If Graphene Batteries Do Everything Scientists Say, They Could Be a Gamechanger

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers from the University of Leeds and Edinburgh in the UK have 3D printed the "first ever biomimetic tongue surface."

Scientists 3D Print “Biomimetic” Copy of Human Tongue

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists 3D printed fake sea turtle eggs and stuffed them with GPS transmitters to track and stop poachers from selling the endangered species.

Scientists Put GPS Trackers Inside Fake Sea Turtle Eggs to Catch Poachers

By Dan Robitzski

Watch a 3D Printer Spit Out an Entire Two-Story House

Watch a 3D Printer Spit Out an Entire Two-Story House

By Victor Tangermann

With help from a Russian 3D printing startup, American fast food chain KFC wants to craft the "world's first laboratory-produced chicken nuggets."

KFC Is Working on 3D Printed, Lab-Grown Chicken Nuggets

By Victor Tangermann

A team of engineers and physicists is 3D printing a nuclear reactor, which they say will help speed up the pace at which the slow-paced industry innovates.

Engineers Are 3D-Printing a Nuclear Reactor

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are suggesting we could explore the surface of Mars using a fleet of "nanocardboard" aircraft.

Researchers Want to Explore Mars Using “Nanocardboard” Aircraft

By Victor Tangermann

3D Printing Food in Certain Shapes Tricks People Into Eating Less

3D Printing Food in Certain Shapes Tricks People Into Eating Less

By Dan Robitzski

Ther are no bones about it: European researchers say they've invented a rubbery nanomaterial that seamlessly integrates with the human body.

Scientists Say New Nanomaterial Could “Replace Human Tissue”

By Jon Christian

When an Italian hospital started to run out of ventilator valves, 3D printing firms came in to make some more on the spot.

An Overwhelmed Italian Hospital Is 3D Printing Replacement Parts

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers created tiny "nanodrills" that were able to cut themselves into the cells of worms and plankton. They could even cure skin diseases.

Brutal “Nanodrills” Can Kill Tiny Living Worms and Water Fleas

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at the University of California San Diego say they've built a "thermal camouflage" material that can hide from tech like night vision goggles.

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This Material Makes You Invisible to Night-Vision Goggles

By Jon Christian

Surgeons Gave This Adorable Cat Four Amazing 3D-Printed Paws

Surgeons Gave This Adorable Cat Four Amazing 3D-Printed Paws

By Victor Tangermann

Nonprofit New Story has unveiled the first 3D-printed houses in what will eventually be a community boasting 50 of the unique homes.

These Adorable 3D-Printed Houses Could Solve Homelessness

By Kristin Houser

NVIDIA has built an AI that can create a detailed 3D model of an object in less than 100 milliseconds from just a single image of it.

New AI Can Create a 3D Model of an Object From a Single 2D Image

By Kristin Houser

Chinese construction company Winsun has finished building a 3D-printed river revetment more than 500 meters (1,640 feet) long.

China Just Completed the World’s Largest 3D-Printed Structure

By Kristin Houser

People are creating realistic avatars of celebrities or their own exes and having sex with them in virtual reality, raising issues of consent and privacy.

People Are Selling 3D Virtual Sex Models of Celebs, Exes

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, have 3D-printed skin that's alive and has blood vessels.

Scientists 3D-Printed Living Skin, Complete With Blood Vessels

By Victor Tangermann

Dubai has unveiled the world's largest two-story 3D-printed building, a 31-foot-tall structure covering an area of 6,889 square feet.

Watch a Massive 3D-Printed Building Take Shape

By Kristin Houser

The world's largest 3D-printed boat took just 72 hours to construct using the world's largest 3D printer — and it didn't even push the device to its limits.

Watch a Giant 3D Printer Spit out an Entire Boat

By Kristin Houser

People with celiac disease may finally be able to enjoy foods with gluten thanks to a new nanoparticle technology developed at Northwestern University.

Nanoparticle Tech Reduces Celiac Disease Symptoms by 90%

By Kristin Houser

California-based company Made in Space is launching a special machine to the ISS that can turn plastic waste into feedstock for the comapny's 3D printer.

New Machine on ISS Will Turn Trash Into “Ink” For 3D Printers

By Victor Tangermann

Bad actors could covertly create weapons of mass destruction using a combination of 3D printers and artificial intelligence, experts warn.

Report: Terrorists Could 3D Print Weapons of Mass Destruction

By Kristin Houser

This Biotech Company Claims to Have 3D Printed a Mini Human Heart

This Biotech Company Claims to Have 3D Printed a Mini Human Heart

By Victor Tangermann

A Danish initiative imagines 3D printers that can walk, fly, and swim, navigating the world autonomously to repair roads, reefs, and high rises.

Designers Want to Give 3D Printers Legs, Let Them Wander the Earth

By Kristin Houser

A team of researchers just 3D printed functional components of the human heart using a specialized printer that's capable of printing suspended hydrogels.

Researchers 3D Print Functional Components of Human Heart

By Victor Tangermann

Pharma startup Multiply Labs wants to 3D print customized pills that combine all necessary prescriptions at exact doses.

This Startup Wants to 3D Print One Pill With All Your Prescriptions

By Victor Tangermann

Physicist Sterling Backus is 3D printing a full-scale Lamborghini Aventador-inspired supercar in his own backyard with the help of his son.

A Physicist and His Son Are 3D-Printing a Full-Scale Lamborghini

By Victor Tangermann

By stacking two layers of graphene, physicists produced entirely new quantum states that they think might help overcome a major hurdle to quantum computers.

Stacking Graphene Creates Entirely New Quantum States

By Kristin Houser

As the technology becomes cheaper and more common, surgeons may find themselves routinely practicing for an operation with 3D-printed organs.

Prepping for Surgery With 3D-Printed Organs May Become Commonplace

By Dan Robitzski

A British student was just convicted today by London police of manufacturing a firearm using a 3D printer, according to Agence France-Presse.

UK Student Convicted for 3D Printing Gun

By Victor Tangermann

A new video demonstrates how a nonprofit plans to build a 3D-printed neighborhood for low-income families in Latin American this summer.

Watch a 3D-Printed Neighborhood Spring up From Nothing

By Kristin Houser

Scientists figured out how to 3D print a functional "lung" made of inflatable air sacs that can oxygenate blood just like a real lung.

New Video Shows 3D Printed Lung “Breathing”

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have created a nanofiber yarn that allows damaged muscles and tendons to continue healing even without movement restrictions.

New “Nanofiber Yarn” Keeps Cells Alive While Injured Tissues Heal

By Kristin Houser

By using 3D-laser scanning technology, there may still be hope for the full recovery and rebuild of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.

Fortunately, There Are Incredible 3D Scans of Notre Dame

By Natalie Coleman

Scientists at Tel Aviv University have created 3D printed "cardiac patches" and a small heart that includes vessels, collagen, and biological molecules.

Researchers Create First Ever 3D-Printed Heart Using Human Tissue

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have 3D-printed tissues to replicate the bone and cartilage most often injured through sports — and their creation could save athletes' careers.

These Scientists Are 3D-Printing New Body Parts for Athletes

By Kristin Houser

A University of Cambridge spin-out company claims it has found a way to produce graphene at commercial scale and will release a device soon.

First Graphene-Based Device Is A “Few Months” Away, Says Startup

By Kristin Houser

Nissan Wants to Beam 3D Anime Versions of People Into Its Cars

Nissan Wants to Beam 3D Anime Versions of People Into Its Cars

By Victor Tangermann

An electric motorcycle called Nera looks like something from a video game — a design made possible by the fact that it's almost 100 percent 3D printed.

This 3D Printed Electric Motorcycle Looks Like Something From “TRON”

By Jon Christian

Scientists at the University of California found a way to 3D print objects out of a special resin using light from a projector.

Watch a Super-Fast 3D Printer Scientists Call the “Replicator”

By Victor Tangermann

A stylized picture of a 3D-printed heart like one NASA wants to print in space.

Here’s Why NASA Wants to 3D Print Human Hearts in Space

By Dan Robitzski

3D Printed Implants and Stem Cells Helped Paralyzed Rats Walk Again

3D Printed Implants and Stem Cells Helped Paralyzed Rats Walk Again

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have created molecules called TrAPs that can promote wound healing by "talking" to the cells found near the site of the injury.

New Nanotech Drives Healing by “Talking” to Wounds

By Kristin Houser

HP’s New Jet Fusion 3D Printers Can Print Electronics Inside a Product

HP’s New Jet Fusion 3D Printers Can Print Electronics Inside a Product

By Cecille De Jesus

A researcher's new astonishing software called "Photo Wake-Up" allows 3D character animations to simply "walk out" of a static image frame.

This Algorithm Can Create 3D Animations From A Single Still Image

By Victor Tangermann

3d printed glucose monitors could make health monitoring simpler

3D-Printed Glucose Sensors Could Cut Costs for People With Diabetes

Researchers develop a corkscrew-shaped nanobot they can guide through the dense tissue of an eyeball using a magnetic field.

A New Nanobot Drills Through Your Eyeball to Deliver Drugs

By Kristin Houser

It’s Now Way Easier to Manipulate Individual Atoms in 3D

It’s Now Way Easier to Manipulate Individual Atoms in 3D

By Kristin Houser

Researchers from Yale University have found a way to make 3D printing metal far easier, potentially opening up the material to consumer use.

We Can Now Easily 3D Print With Metal

By Kristin Houser

Apparel startup Vollebak is selling a $695 graphene jacket that can conduct and retain heat, repel bacteria, and decrease humidity.

You Can Now Buy The World’s First Graphene Jacket, And It’s Everything You Want It To Be

By Kristin Houser

MIT researchers have created nanobots that can travel via an aerosol spray, potentially opening up a new field in robotics.

MIT Researchers Create an Aerosol Spray Loaded With Nanobots

By Kristin Houser

Millions of People Need New Corneas. Now We Can 3D Print Them.

Millions of People Need New Corneas. Now We Can 3D Print Them.

By Kristin Houser

AI Created Complete 3D Models Of Cells So Doctors See How Diseases Change Them

AI Created Complete 3D Models Of Cells So Doctors See How Diseases Change Them

By Dan Robitzski

Nanoparticles Could Save Lives By Stopping Internal Bleeding

Nanoparticles Could Save Lives By Stopping Internal Bleeding

By Chelsea Gohd

Graphene Could Be the Superconductor Scientists Always Dreamed Of

Graphene Could Be the Superconductor Scientists Always Dreamed Of

By Chelsea Gohd

Customized “Exosuits” Will Move With Your Stride

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Customized “Exosuits” Will Move With Your Stride

By Claudia Geib