You also can 3D-print tools when teaching new operators, or in situations where manufacturing speed or safety matters more ...

Additive manufacturing leaders are focusing on defense, helping the U.S. military move from 'futuristic visions' to ...

Rocket engineering is shifting from painstaking machining and welding to a world where engines and tanks emerge from printers ...

Metal 3D printing has long promised aerospace-grade parts at desktop scale, but titanium has stubbornly resisted that vision.

Aluminum is prized for being lightweight and strong, but at high temperatures it loses strength. This has limited its use in ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. ESA scientists have successfully demonstrated 3D printing of a metal part in space for the first ...

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Chris Borge] has made (and revised) many of his own tools using a combination of 3D printing and common hardware, and recently decided to try metal casting. Having created his own tapping arm, he ...

3D printing technology is used not only to build things as large as houses, but also as small as snowflakes. A new material allows the latter to be much stronger than ever before, and to be printed ...

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have used ESA’s metal 3D printer to forge the first-ever metal part made entirely in space. The achievement was part of a collaboration between ...

If you needed any more proof that Bentley is a luxury car company, it's now using real 18-carat gold in the Mulliner Batur, which should be enough to cement that idea. Not only is the W-12 engined ...