A Dutch architect recently announced plans to construct a house using 3D printing, a technology that has been around for decades but has only entered the public consciousness in the last few years ...

This is 2D printing, because there’s an area with an x-axis and a y-axis, so there are two degrees of freedom. With 3D printing, there's a third dimension: height.

From incredible stories of successful body-part transplants, to controversy surrounding easy access to weapons online, 3D printing is the latest technology craze.

If you’re interested in getting a rundown of what 3D printers are, how they work, how much they cost, and what you could do with them, you’ve come to the right place.

News 3D printing The future of our world is 3D printing, experts say - but how exactly does it work? 3D printing, an umbrella term for the process of making solid objects from a digital file, will ...

While most forms of 3D printing utilize simple plastic in one form or another, not all of them do. For example, the process of selective laser sintering, or SLS, makes use of powdered polymers.

Canadian 3D printing work looks at past, future By Michelle McQuigge The Canadian Press Posted October 22, 2013 11:23 am 5 min read ...

Enterprising do-it-yourselfers have built or modded print heads, generally piezoelectric heads, to work with various materials—in some cases printing out the print heads themselves on other 3D ...

3D printing is changing the way we make things, and by extension the thing that we make. But how exactly does it work, and how is it advancing? By Graham Templeton October 26, 2015 ...

Additive manufacturing or 3D printing is essentially laying down layer upon layer of material until an object is created. Currently the 3D prin ...