You may have gotten a 3D printer just to make a few cool gadgets for around the house, but these five prints can actually save you money in the long run.

Murray Leinster’s short story Things Pass By, published in 1945, includes what may be the first description of 3D printers: But this constructor is both efficient and flexible. I feed magnetronic ...

Examples of 3D printed products from the HP Multi Jet Fusion 3D printer, which allows for flexible designs with both soft and hard plastic in a single print. Co-directors of the HP-NTU Corporate Lab, ...

Traditional subtractive manufacturing involves cutting away material to create a product, while 3D printing is an additive process that builds objects by adding material layer by layer. A 3D-printed ...

Advances in additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, have generated increasingly powerful capabilities for producing geometrically complex structures that could not be made using ...

3D printing continues to gain ground among those who can afford to make use of the tech, but is it safe to use 3d-printed ...

Color 3D printing has gone mainstream, and we expect more than one hacker will be unpacking one over the holidays. If you have, say, a color inkjet printer, the process is simple: print. Sure, maybe ...

Perhaps one of the oldest dreams of a science-fiction future is the ability to create something where once there was nothing. If we could create solid, stable objects out of thin air, the idea of ...

Prosthetics for injured animals are becoming increasingly possible and accessible thanks to 3D printing. Historically, artificial devices for wildlife have been expensive and very time-consuming to ...