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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.
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.
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.
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?
Trade and Investment
3D Printing: A Guide for Decision-Makers
This White Paper provides guidance on how to deal with business and policy challenges as 3D printing (3DP) might revolutionize the way products are made and may provoke unintended consequ...
Infrastructure
This start-up is 3D-printing an entire neighbourhood in Mexico
New Story will provide 50 families in Tabasco with secure homes.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.