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With the help of Danish space design company SAGA Space Architects, students at a Swiss boarding school designed a futuristic three-story space habitat.

This Futuristic Space Condo Is Designed to Squish Into SpaceX’s Starship

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists at the regenerative medicine company 3DBio Therapeutics have successfully implanted a 3D printed ear made from the patient's own cells.

Doctors Transplant Ear That Was 3D Printed With Patient’s Own Cells

By Victor Tangermann

Manuel Zahn and Armaghan Ahmad Khan published research on their 3D camera and haptic feedback sleeve that will help people who are blind or have low vision.

Prosthetics and Devices

New Device Lets People Who Are Blind “See” in Infrared

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A Texas startup wants to build a community of 100 3D printed homes — which would make it the largest such community in the US.

Texas Startup Building Largest 3D Printed Home Community in US

By Tony Ho Tran

A team of scientists used AI to uncover a lost Picasso portrait painted over by the artist back in the early 1900s.

Scientists Use AI, 3D Printing to Uncover Hidden Picasso Painting

By Tony Ho Tran

Scientists built a machine that simultaneously 3D prints and laser-cooks chicken, hinting at a new way to rapidly procure meals.

New Tech Cooks and 3D Prints Chicken Simultaneously

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists managed to 3D print a "viable" glioblastoma tumor so that they can develop better, more effective treatments for the deadly brain cancer.

Scientists 3D Print Living, Viable Brain Tumor, to Practice Killing It

By Dan Robitzski

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

For the first time in the US, a formerly-homeless person moved into a 3D-printed house that he says turned his life around.

Formerly Homeless Man Now Living in 3D Printed House

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

The US Department of Defense is working to develop a full, portable 3D printing lab that can fit inside a shipping container.

The US Military Is Getting 3D Printing “Factories” Inside Shipping Containers

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

The first livable 3D-printed house in the U.S. is on sale in Long Island for $300,000, considerably cheaper than its neighbors.

Science & Energy

First 3D Printed House Goes on Sale in United States

By Dan Robitzski

To come up with new ways to treat aneurysms and improve on existing treatments a team of researchers developed the first-ever living 3D-printed aneurysm.

Scientists Create World’s First “Living” Human Brain Aneurysm

By Victor Tangermann

Israeli startup Aleph Farms just launched a space program, which focuses on producing meat anywhere — even in the most hostile environments such as Mars.

Startup Exploring Lab-Grown Meat on Off-Planet Settlements

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

NASA Invests in 3D Printing Space Habitat Technology

NASA Invests in 3D Printing Space Habitat Technology

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers are suggesting we could use one of the most common organic polymers on Earth to construct shelters on Mars.

Scientists: We Could Build Mars Shelters Out of Insect Polymers and Martian Soil

By Victor Tangermann

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

Performing surgeries in space could end up being a pretty messy — and potentially dangerous — reality for astronauts on future missions to Mars.

Scientists Ponder Gory Mayhem of Zero-Gravity Surgery

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

In an experiment, a team of European researchers attempted to use the main compound in human urine and lunar regolith to create a resilient concrete.

Scientists: Astronauts Could Build Moon Base Using Human Urine

By Victor Tangermann

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

A research team's new technique has improved the development of transparent organs creating stunning images of 3D cellular maps.

Scientists Turn Entire Human Organs Fully Transparent

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

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

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers 3D-printed a replica of the mummy Nesyamun's vocal tract — and then used it to hear what his voice would've sounded like when he was alive.

Science & Energy

Hear an Ancient Mummy “Talk” Using a 3D-Printed Vocal Tract

By Kristin Houser

A team of Brazilian researchers have succesfully bioprinted tiny organoids like a mini-liver that perform all of the human liver's functions.

Scientists Print Functional Human “Mini-Livers”

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

Scientists encoded instructions for creating a 3D-printed plastic bunny in DNA and then embedded the DNA right in the bunny itself.

Science & Energy

This Plastic Bunny Has DNA Explaining How to Make More Bunnies

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

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump Administration's 2018 decision to let Defense Distributed share blueprints for 3D-printed guns was illegal.

Federal Judge: It’s Illegal to Post 3D-Printed Gun Designs Online

By Kristin Houser

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

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

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

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 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

Scientists are closer than ever to a cure for baldness, thanks to cloned stem cells and 3D-printed scaffolding that could let new hairs take root.

Health & Medicine

Baldness Could Soon Be Cured for Real — if You’re Rich

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just awarded Made In Space a $73.3 million contract to demonstrate 3D-printing spacecraft parts while in orbit using a small spacecraft.

NASA Approves Plan to 3D Print Giant Spaceship Parts in Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

Russia space agency Roscosmos confirmed that it's planning to 3D print structures on the moon to protect astronauts from the harsh environment by 2040.

Russia is Planning to 3D Print a Moon Base

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists 3D printed skin and bone samples upside down to see if astronauts on Mars could use the technology in low-gravity environments.

3D-Printed Human Skin and Bone Could Save Astronauts on Mars

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

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

People interested in 3D-printed guns are sharing the files needed to build the firearms anonymously online, according to a troubling Wired story.

Anonymous Group of 3D-Printed Gun Makers Is Spreading Online

By Kristin Houser

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

Scientists Plan to 3D Print Muscular Tissue on the Space Station

Scientists Plan to 3D Print Muscular Tissue on the Space Station

By Dan Robitzski

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

A futuristic restaurant plans to collect samples of diners' bodily fluids so it can create meals hyper-personalized to meet their nutritional needs.

Restaurant Analyzes Your Bodily Fluids to Make Ultra-Nutritious Sushi

By Kristin Houser

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

NASA crowned the top three winners of the 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge's latest round, challenging teams to "complete a virtual construction level."

These 3D-Printed Mars Habitats Just Won a NASA Award

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

UK Startup Shows Off World’s Largest 3D Printed Rocket Engine

UK Startup Shows Off World’s Largest 3D Printed Rocket Engine

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

Relativity Space — a 3D-rocket-printing company founded by SpaceX, and Blue Origin alumni — got permission from the Air Force to launch from Cape Canaveral.

U.S. Air Force Approves Launch Site for 3D Printed Rocket

By Victor Tangermann

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

Neutrogena announced a new line of personalized, 3D-printed facemasks at CES 2019. The masks are customized to your face and can treat each region of skin.

Health & Medicine

Neutrogena is Printing Custom Face Masks That Fit You Perfectly

By Dan Robitzski

Experts in the 3D bioprinting and regenerative health field got together to come up with ways space agencies could use the technology to treat astronauts.

To Heal Injured Astronauts, Experts Want to 3D Print “Skin, Bone and Body Parts”

By Victor Tangermann

3d printed glucose monitors could make health monitoring simpler

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

Scientists Are 3D Printing Fake Moon Dust Into Useful Objects

Scientists Are 3D Printing Fake Moon Dust Into Useful Objects

By Victor Tangermann

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station can now use the Refabricator to transform plastic waste into needed tools.

A New Gadget Turns Plastic Waste Into Tools Astronauts Need

By Kristin Houser

Startup Precise Bio is nearing human trials of its bioprinted corneas, according to a newly published report in IEEE Spectrum.

Health & Medicine

Bioprinted Corneas Are Nearly Ready for Human Trials, Says Startup

By Kristin Houser

After four years of study, NASA concluded that 3D printing works just as well in space as it does on Earth. Deep space missions may be in the future.

NASA: Objects 3D Printed in Space Perform Well Enough to Support Missions

By Dan Robitzski