LEGO are perhaps the perfect children’s toy, at least until you step on the errant brick while walking around the house. Available in all kinds of sets with varying themes and characters, they ...

A research team at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science has developed what it believes could be the template for the first building blocks for human-compatible organs ...

For centuries, wood has been shaped through subtractive manufacturing—cutting, carving, and milling—processes that inevitably generate waste. While recycled wood often ends up as fuel, mulch, or ...

How it works is, the bridge's building blocks were created using a 3D printer, which extruded a cement-based mixture in layers to built up the blocks' structure, following an exact computer-made plan.

Imagine if you could "print" a tiny skyscraper using DNA instead of steel. That’s what researchers at Columbia and Brookhaven are doing—constructing intricate 3D nanostructures by harnessing the ...

PARKERSBURG -- A program this week at West Virginia University at Parkersburg is teaching a group of area students about 3-D printing to help spark an interest in technology and its real world ...

Engineers developed a new kind of reconfigurable masonry made from 3D-printed, recycled glass. The bricks could be reused many times over in building facades and internal walls. What if construction ...

From engineers to artists to home inventors, 3D printers are used in the creation of everything from footwear and jewelry to automobile parts and cheesecake. The origins of 3D-printing technologies ...