Science & Technology

Harvard’s Jennifer Lewis Lab Is 3D Printing Artificial Muscles That Twist and Bend on Demand

Researchers at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new way to 3D print materials that can move on their own, bending, twisting,…

SWISSto12 and HPS/LSS Build Unfurling Antenna for Next-Gen Satellite

SWISSto12 is to work with HPS/LSS. High Performance Space Structure Systems and Large Space Structures are two separate firms that work together on large antenna reflectors. The two will work…

3D Printing News Briefs, May 2, 2026: Soft Robots, Agricultural Waste, & More

In this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’ll start off with a multi-laser metal powder bed fusion 3D printer and post-processing news. We’ll end with research into soft robotics and…

3D Printing News Briefs, April 30, 2026: Support-Free Titanium, Drug Delivery, & More

In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’ll start with Makelab’s new website, and move on to commercialization of support-free metal 3D printing in South Korea. We’ll end with drug delivery…

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Bambu Lab’s 3D Printed Drone Add-On Helps Measure Whales from the Sky

Bambu Lab has helped Tandem Ventures develop the WHASER, a 3D printed attachment for a drone that can measure whales. This seems like a nifty tool for researchers. It is…

3D Printing Could Show How Cells Respond to Shape — and Heal, New UK Research Finds

Researchers at the University of Nottingham are using 3D printing to learn how human cells sense and react to their surroundings. The project focuses on cells involved in healing, like…

Scientists Create 3D Printed Neurons That Can Talk to Brain Cells

Researchers at Northwestern University have developed 3D printed neurons that can send signals to real brain cells and get a response back. According to the team, the printed structures could…

Rice Researchers Use Microwaves to 3D Print Electronics

Rice University researchers have found a way to 3D print using focused microwaves. Published in Science Advances, Professor Yong Lin Kong and his team believe the technology could be used…

DTU 3D Prints New Fuel Cell Design With 5x Power Boost

Technical University of Denmark (DTU) researchers have used Lithoz ceramics 3D printing to make more efficient hydrogen fuel cells. With a part made from Lithoz Yttria Fully Stabilized Zirconia (8YSZ),…

Canada Backs Aspect Biosystems With $280M to Scale Bioprinted Tissue Therapies

The Government of Canada is supporting bioprinting company Aspect Biosystems with a new $280 million project to help develop and manufacture its bioengineered cellular medicines. The project will run over…

3D Printed Bone Grafts From Georgetown Researchers Could Replace Traditional Implants

Researchers at Georgetown University are developing a new type of 3D printed bone graft designed to work more like real human bone. Instead of relying on metal implants or donor…

Artemis II Launches With 3D Printing Onboard, and a Much Bigger Role Ahead

A new chapter in human spaceflight began today as NASA launched Artemis II from Kennedy Space Center, sending astronauts on a journey around the Moon for the first time in…

Aerospace Giant IHI Bets on Freemelt E-Beam 3D Printing for Next-Gen Turbine Alloys

IHI Europe has purchased a Freemelt electron-beam powder-bed fusion (E-PBF) system. Previously, parent IHI bought two Freemelt systems, bringing the total to three. IHI is a Japanese engineering conglomerate. The…

Japan’s Space Compass Corporation Buys a SWISSto12 Satellite

Japanese firm Space Compass Corporation has agreed to buy a SWISSTo12 GEO optical data relay satellite. The compact Hummingsat will be used for Space Compass’ optical data relay service. Space…

Horizon Microtechnologies Expands Into Microfluidics

Horizon Microtechnologies uses Boston Micro Fabrication‘s (BMF) Projection Micro Stereolithography (PμSL) technology to make tiny, accurate parts. It then enhances these polymer prints with proprietary coatings and expertise in controlling…

TV’s Scarpetta Suggests We Can 3D Print Full Human Organs. Reality Is… Not Yet

Having spent a good part of my journalistic career covering crime stories, it’s hard for me to stay away from any crime or medical forensic drama. So when Scarpetta premiered…

Why Additive Manufacturing Adoption Looks the Way It Does — Part III

The development of additive manufacturing has closely tracked broader trends in industrial digitalization. Additive manufacturing is digital at its point of origin. Geometry, process parameters, and machine instructions are all…

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Everything is Connected: Cisco’s Samuel Pasquier Explains the Relevance of the IIoT Revolution to AM’s Growth Trajectory

On its own, additive manufacturing (AM) may not need a new round of record-setting investment in order to move to new heights of scalability (whether or not any investors would…

3D Printing News Briefs, March 12, 2026: Linear Motor, Assistive Technology, & More

Conflux Technology’s 3D printed transmission oil cooler took to the track on a Multimatic Motorsports car; this story kicks off today’s 3D Printing News Briefs. Then, MIT researchers developed a…

Fraunhofer ILT Tests 3D Printed Titanium Reactors to Generate Hydrogen Onboard Heavy Vehicles

The Aachen-based Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology (Fraunhofer ILT) is to research titanium aluminide hydrogen reactors and heat exchangers. The hope is that lightweight, better-performing 3D printed components will make…

Why Additive Manufacturing Adoption Looks the Way It Does — Part II

As additive manufacturing moved beyond prototyping, its first sustained production relevance emerged in applications where performance considerations outweighed cost efficiency and throughput. The driving factor in these cases was not…

ATO and Dynamism Partner to Expand Metal Powder Production in the U.S., Announced at AMS 2026

ATO Technology is expanding its presence in the United States through a new partnership with Dynamism, a well-known distributor of advanced manufacturing technologies. The collaboration was announced during the Additive…

Why Additive Manufacturing Adoption Looks the Way It Does – Part I

Additive manufacturing has been discussed for decades as a technology with the potential to reshape how products are designed and produced. Expectations have often focused on what the technology could…

3D Printing News Briefs, February 21, 2026: Vapor Smoothing, Brain Models, & More

In this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’re starting with material and post-processing news from Quickparts, and some more post-processing news from AM Solutions. We’ll end with researchers at the…