Nowadays, 3D printing allows items to be created from a wide variety of materials — plastic, ceramic, glass, metal and even stranger ingredients such as chocolate and living cells. The machines work ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Objects that can change shape within seconds after being exposed to heat demonstrate a novel ...

Though the practice of 3D printing is still firmly entrenched in its journey from fledgling idea to emerging technology, news out of Harvard’s Wyss Institute this week proves innovation waits for no ...

A new 4D-printing technique that creates complex structures in minutes could be used to make temperature-activated cardiac stents, drug capsules and flat-pack furniture. Zhen Ding at the Singapore ...

If you’re a fan of the Big Bang Theory, you may remember how Howard and Raj spent three hours printing a 25 cent whistle in a 3D printer. More of a sci-fi fan? Then, you likely watched in Jurassic ...

Drawing inspiration from how plants change shape in response to environmental stimuli, Harvard scientists from the Wyss Institute and John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have ...

Video of cube self-folding strand courtesy Self-Assembly Lab, MIT / Stratasys Many are only just getting their heads around the idea of 3D printing but scientists at MIT are already working on an ...

Three dimensional printing is about to become so passé – welcome to the world of 4D printing. A team of scientists has created a technique for printing objects that can change their shape over time ...

Printed polymers that change shape once in a predefined way when heated? This is now possible thanks to a 4D printing technology developed in the Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Programmable ...

Many are only just getting their heads around the idea of 3D printing but scientists at MIT are already working on an upgrade: 4D printing. At the TED conference in Los Angeles, architect and computer ...