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 ...

[Ivan Miranda] is all about big 3D prints. He’s now set about printing giant blocks in the vein of LEGO Technic to build himself a full-sized rideable go kart. The project is still in progress, but ...

Around 15 students, ages 13 to 17, are attending the Teen 3D Printing Academy this week at West Virginia University at Parkersburg. During the week, the students are instructed about 3-D printing ...

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.

Scientists are bioprinting 3D structures with a material that is a close match for human tissue, paving the way for true biomanufacturing. A research team at the University of Virginia School of ...

Over 460 million metric tons of plastic are created each year and only about 9% is recycled. This has led to ever-growing problems with waste disposal, litter, water contamination, microplastics and a ...