Lab-Grown Answers to Food’s Triple Threat
A food crisis like few have ever seen could be the impetus for lab-grown and other food alternatives to thrive. But it won’t be without its own challenges.
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Building Sustainable Housing: Is An Eco-Friendly Future 3D Printed?
Get better housing—faster, more affordably and more sustainably. 3D-printed architecture could kickstart a revolution in the construction industry.
Arevo and Our 3D-Printed Future
Are we on the edge of breaking through, poised to transform how we as humans will make things forever? This CEO thinks so.
With a 3D-printed Instrument, This Musician Is Composing the Future
Often, it begins in the dark. When the LEDs light up—in red, yellow, blue, green, and purple—the face inside the mask becomes faintly perceptible. But before the gathering crowd can identify the man, the music...
Davos 2015: Organovo’s Eric David on Applications for 3D-printed Human Tissue
Organovo Chief Strategy Officer Eric David visits Hub Culture at the World Economic Forum Davos 2015. David discusses replacing and augmenting organs with 3D-printed human tissue.
How Sharing, RoboCars, and 3D Printing Can Reinvent Industrial Detroit
"The age of the industrial city is over, at least in the West, and it will never return," declared Edward Glaeser in his book “Triumph of the City.” Detroit, whose decline he blamed on the...
Dutch Surgeon Successfully Implants 3D-Printed Skull
3D printing has gained popularity as the cool do-it-yourself way to manufacture your own art pieces, knickknacks, and playthings. But the technology is capable of so much more—printing everything from food to housing to combat...
Making Art with Brainscans and 3D Printers
Suzanne Anker finds beauty and meaning at the borderlines of science. This visual artist and sculptor talks about “the way in which visual art and the biological sciences intersect because of technology.” She is conversant...
This Manufacturing Technique Will Make 3D Printing Seem Old-School
Getting living organisms to do our manufacturing work for us may be the next big shift in materials science. This Quartz article explains how it becomes not inconceivable that in the nearish future we will...