Overpacking isn't exactly an option for trips into space, even for longer trips like an eventual manned mission to Mars. There isn't enough room to carry a swag of spare parts just in case you need ...

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Researchers developed a special 3D-printed plastic that is cheap and flexible. The plastic is made up of a substance they call thermoplastic elastomer. This elastomer is made up of several different ...

Machined tooling contributes to the majority of production costs for many small-run jobs. 3D printing can reduce the cost of plastic cores, molds, and tooling, but there are several considerations to ...

Researchers at the University of Washington have created a range of 3D-printed plastic objects that can communicate with a router even though they're not connected to the internet and don't contain ...

Three Stanford University graduate students have developed open-source technology that 3D prints conductive traces and plastic in one pass. Their startup, Rabbit Proto, is selling a single liquid ...