As COVID-19 threatens less developed countries, collective intelligence and technology can help by offering insight into the pandemic and how to respond.

Kathy Peach and Ian Gray · The Conversation 01 May 2020

COVID-19

A startup in Italy used 3D printing to make valves for COVID-19 patients

Italy is one of the worst affected countries by the COVID-19 pandemic. When hospital staff realized they had run out of valves for patients, a local startup came and printed them.

Ana Zarzalejos and Ruqayyah Moynihan · Business Insider 18 Mar 2020

3D Printing

These 4 simple solutions can help make the manufacturing industry more sustainable

From 3D printing to plastic alternatives, here's how manufacturing can change to protect the environment.

Ric Fulop 24 Feb 2020

3D Printing

'Bio-ink' could form a scaffold for growing human tissue

3D printing and 'bio-ink' could help to could serve as scaffolds, or temporary structures to grow human tissues.

Todd Bates-Rutgers · Futurity 13 Feb 2020

3D Printing

Would a digital border tax slow down adoption of 3D printing?

3D printing has been slow to scale despite a lack of customs duties. What would change if they became the norm?

Jimena Sotelo and Venkataraman Sundareswaran 08 Jan 2020

Infrastructure

This start-up is 3D-printing an entire neighbourhood in Mexico

New Story will provide 50 families in Tabasco with secure homes.

Sean Fleming 20 Dec 2019

Advanced Manufacturing and Production

Watch this 3D printer make a boat in world record speed, at record size

3Dirigo isn’t even the biggest object the school’s 3D printer can construct — if pushed to its limits, it can print objects up to 100 feet long, 22 feet wide, and 10 feet high.

Kristin Houser · Futurism 06 Nov 2019

United Arab Emirates

Dubai has taken 3D printing to a whole new level - literally

The project required only 15 workers and produced 60% less waste than traditional technologies.

Kristen Houser · Futurism 01 Nov 2019

Emerging Technologies

How two colossal Assyrian icons were recreated using digital tech

The exact replicas, the result of a 15-year project, have been unveiled in Iraq.

Sean Fleming 29 Oct 2019

3D Printing

This 3D printing breakthrough could boost humanity’s exploration of the solar system

“Demonstrating and validating recycling capabilities on the ISS is an important step towards developing sustainable manufacturing systems that will enable us to venture deeper into the so...

Victor Tangermann · Futurism 24 Oct 2019

Infrastructure

6 innovative technologies about to transform our infrastructure

From plastic roads to design that keeps costs, here are the new developments promising to shake up the sometimes-frustrating world of infrastructure.

Joseph Losavio 17 Sep 2019

Advanced Manufacturing and Production

This biotech company claims to have 3D printed a mini human heart

3D printing may have serious medical uses if this heart, as claimed, is fully functional - scientists have said the aim is to make it compatible with humans. It could also have cardio-tox...

Victor Tangermann · Futurism 10 Sep 2019

3D Printing

Bone implants to be made from 3D printed salt

3D-printed ‘salt templates’ have paved the way for new porous magnesium scaffolds for creating bone implants the body can absorb, researchers report.

Peter Ruegg-eth Zurich · Futurity 03 Sep 2019

3D Printing

This new method can create vascular stents that are 40 times smaller than previously possible

Scientists in Zurich have developed new 'indirect 4D printing' technology which has allowed them to develop vascular stents 40 times smaller than previously possible. These stents could o...

ETH Zurich · Futurity 14 Aug 2019

Emerging Technologies

Harvard scientists have created a camera that can capture invisible light

A camera just 2 centimeters in length has been created by Harvard scientists, revealing how light is reflected and transmitted by the world around us.

Paul Ratner · Big Think 08 Jul 2019

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