The plastic bottle you just tossed in the recycling bin could provide structural support for your future house. MIT engineers ...

3D printing is transforming single-use trash into permanent infrastructure. Engineers at MIT are successfully ...

While it's possible to 3D-print plastic or metal items, printing single items made of both materials is still quite difficult. Scientists have developed a new method of doing so, however, that could ...

You know your 3D printer has taken over the rest of your life ...

Plastic waste is a big problem in our world today. It's important for makers who use 3D printing technology (which generates plastic objects) to consider the waste hierarchy paradigm. Here's the thing ...

MIT aims to make house construction more sustainable by using discarded plastics to print structural components.

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have co-developed a new way to precisely control the internal ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Carolyn Schwaar is a tech journalist and editor at All3DP Magazine. This article is more than 3 years old. 3D-printed skull ...

When the manufacture of plastic products moves into ordinary homes, new health problems arise, including emissions of ...

Los Angeles-based startup Azure is using recycled plastic to 3D print prefab homes. The startup is now selling several models ranging from a backyard studio to a two-bedroom ADU. Azure says it can ...

Current 3D printers employ either plastic or metal only, and the conventional method to coat 3D plastic structures with metal is not environment-friendly and yields poor results. Now, scientists have ...

A commonly used material in 3D printing is plastics. The reason being is that it is readily available, cost effective, and allows for rapid prototyping. However, plastics pose an environmental concern ...