Professional ballet dancers can go through hundreds of pairs of pointe shoes each year. Could 3D printing change that? German startup act’ble believes it can. Ballet emerged in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries, but Italian shoemakers only toughened…

When Ian Ramsdell, founder of Kupros, started asking electronics specialists about 3D printing copper, he faced plenty of skepticism. One expert, in Ramsdell’s recollection, insisted it could not be done and never would be: “Copper can’t be 3D printed, it’ll…

Europe is living through its fourth major heatwave of the 2026 season, with temperatures above 40°C recorded across the Iberian Peninsula, France, Italy, and Austria. Cities are hit hardest: urban heat island effects can push local temperatures 1.7 to 4°C…

The Toronto-based PharmaTher Holdings Ltd. has launched Personaliz3D Peptides™, a division built to develop and commercialize personalized peptide products using 3D printing and artificial intelligence. Two days later, the specialty pharmaceutical company announced a collaboration with Singapore-based Craft Health Pte.…

The American company Auxilium Biotechnologies has successfully 3D-printed kidney and liver tissue in space for the first time. The experiment was conducted aboard the International Space Station (ISS) using its AMP-1 orbital bioprinter. The samples returned to Earth on June…

Cockroaches are usually the last creatures anyone wants to encounter. But researchers at Nanyang Technological University and Waseda University have turned them into unlikely rescue tools, fitting living insects with 3D-printed underwater suits that let them navigate flooded environments. It…