A secondary-school student in China has used a 3D printer and old smartphone components to make a vertical foldable mobile phone, winning massive admiration on social media, including the thumbs-up from a major phone maker.
Gun rights activist Rob Pincus was worried when he heard a 3D-printed 'ghost gun' was found on the alleged shooter in last week's notorious murder of a US health executive in New York.
Researchers to launch safer, cost-effective machine soon.
The University of Maine has developed the world's largest 3D printer, capable not only of printing huge single parts from thermoplastic polymers, but also individual houses. At its own scale, it could therefore play a role in the construction of new housing that is both economical and sustainable.
FROM DR MOHD IFWAT MOHD GHAZALI Senior lecturer SMART Research Group Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia
MARFA, Texas (Reuters) - It looks like any other 3D printer - except it's the size of a crane and is, layer by layer, building a hotel in the Texan desert.
A 3D printer that produces more humanlike tissue could hasten the discovery of new drugs.
A hydrogel-based bioink has been used by Chinese researchers to develop a breakthrough therapy for erectile dysfunction
CONCEPCION, Chile (Reuters) - A university team in Chile has built a huge 3D-printed concrete home that they say is Latin America's first such building, using a robot "printer" that pours layers of concrete based on a digital plan controlled by a computer.
GEORGETOWN, Texas (Reuters) - As with any desktop 3D printer, the Vulcan printer pipes layer by layer to build an object – except this printer is more than 45 feet (13.7 m) wide, weighs 4.75 tons and prints residential homes.
(Reuters) - Apple is testing 3D printers to make the steel frames of some of its upcoming smartwatches, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people with knowledge of the matter.
It could be a gamechanger in delivering vaccines to remote and hard-to-access areas.
3D Systems Corp has agreed to pay up to US$27mil (RM212mil) to settle with the United States for illegally exporting to China controlled design drawings for military electronics and spacecraft, among other violations.
A Texas company is creating a 3D printer that could build roadways, landing pads and habitats on the moon.
These printed blood vessels could help reduce the failure rate of synthetic grafts used now.
Printing the walls of the 54m-long, 11m-wide and 9m-high building took just 140 working hours for a total surface area of 600sq m.
The parts include a windshield air duct piece and underside NACA duct that are used for cooling driver cockpits.
Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Tuesday (March 4, 2025)
The applications of 3D printing in the home are boundless – and the same goes for various industries from health care to car manufacturing.
KOTA KINABALU: Malaysia's first 3D printed moulded calcaneal bone (heel bone) replacement was performed successfully on a young man by a team of oncologists from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital here.