3d printing

Physicists from Leiden University have 3D-printed a miniature version of an Intrepid-class starship from Star Trek (via PC Gamer). The idea of a tiny starship is probably something you haven’t considered outside of the plot of a Star Trek episode, but this microscopic model is actually part of a larger research experiment the physicists published in the scientific journal Soft Matter.

A team of researchers at Cambridge University in the UK has now developed non-contact, wearable, portable sensors that measure the amount of moisture that leaks through a face mask during normal breathing, rapid breathing and coughing. The new devices are based on transparent, micron-sized electronic fibres, and the researchers report that they significantly outperform comparable commercial sensors.

Imaging the body’s tightest spaces without causing damage can be tricky and necessitates camera-like devices that are smaller than was previously possible to engineer. An international team of researchers has now overcome these technical challenges to produce a camera that is small enough to see inside even the narrowest blood vessels.

In Belgium, Europe’s largest 3D printer was recently used to print an entire two story house, making it one of the biggest 3d printed housing projects ever

The University of Maine (UMaine) Advanced Structures and Composites Center has received three Guinness World Records for the world’s largest prototype polymer 3D printer, largest solid 3D printed object, and largest 3D printed boat.

Researchers have published a new 3D bioprinting method that brings the field of tissue engineering one step closer to being able to 3D print a full-sized, adult human heart.