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Especially in these times of fast fashion, where a piece of clothing from one brand sometimes looks confusingly similar to a piece from another brand, one thing is increasingly gaining in importance: individual and personalized clothing. How this can look…

Additive manufacturing is in some ways less developed in the UK than in other countries. In the UK, only 17% of companies have any experience with additive manufacturing, in sharp contrast to Germany with 37% and China’s 24%. According to…

Medical applications in 3D printing are vast and growing larger by the day. One that is increasingly important, but perhaps less discussed, centers on microfluidics. Microfluidic devices (microfluidic chips) have emerged over the past 30 years and have been rapidly…

3D printing has been applied to reconstructive surgery to create a nose graft for a patient who underwent intense cancer treatment. This amazing feat happened occured at IUCT Oncopole (University Cancer Institute of Toulouse), a cancer care, research, and training…

3D printing and digital manufacturing specialist Sculpteo has released its 8th edition of its report, The State of 3D Printing: 2022. Like its seven predecessors, this document is an annual international study that provides an overview of the additive manufacturing…

3D printing in housing is usually done with concrete materials, but this produces homes which, while well-insulated, can be sometimes expensive and with interior temperatures which are difficult to regulate. Furthermore, concrete is not a particularly environmentally friendly material; according…

In recent years, the additive manufacturing market has clearly shown its potential as trends begin to emerge. And since a technology like additive manufacturing never stands still, we can also always look forward to new trends, developments and opportunities. This…

The James Dyson award is an international competition led by the eponymous entrepeuneur. It rewards engineering or design projects which ‘solve a problem’, and the Polyformer certainly does this. Reiten Cheng and Swaleh Owais have developed a machine which recycles…

Did you know 3D printing is present in space?! In the next step for microgravity bioprinting, Uganda has launched a satellite, named the PearlAfricaSat-1, which includes a facility for 3D bioprinting in space. This will allow the country to take…

3D printing is already being used in incredible ways all over the globe. From bioprinting to 3D printing in construction, it seems that the applications for additive manufacturing are almost limitless. Now, researchers a team of engineers and scientists from…

Coral reefs existed in the dinosaur era, ice age and have survived numerous environmental changes but… will they make it in the 21st century? Some initiatives such as archiREEF have already taken steps to protect the coral reefs, but this…

Since the first space flight in the 1960s, humankind has dreamed of not just visiting the stars but of residing among them. Though living on the Moon or Mars might seem like science-fiction, it is actually something that is being…