Vapor smoothing is a popular post-processing technique for 3D printed polymer parts. We take a look at how it works.

Crank windows? Yep, but that’s just the start—the Slate Truck is an affordable that's only as basic as you want it to be.

This small electric pickup truck will leave the factory with the bare minimum—but it doesn’t need to stay that way.

3D printing is all well and good for prototyping, and it can even produce useful parts. If you want real strenght in plastics, though, or to produce a LOT of parts, you probably want to step up to ...

Turning ideas into tangible creations by building one layer at a time with incredible precision — this is 3D Printing in a nutshell. Since its inception in the 1980s, this transformative ...

In the brightly lit MSE Teaching Laboratory inside Cook Hall, teams of Northwestern Engineering students peer into 3D printers, eagerly waiting to see their latest results. The materials they are ...

Unlike most drive-thrus, however, the walls of this one are grooved and layered — a subtle-yet-telling sign of the 3D printing process that was used to build it. “Coming soon to brownsville ...

While 3D printing for organs is still developing, the technology is driving other life-saving innovations. For instance, it is being used to make exact replicas of organs like the heart so that ...

While Starbucks hasn’t detailed its long-term plans for 3D printing, the company confirmed to the Associated Press that this is its first U.S. store built using the technology. The store was ...