For more than a century, superconductors have represented one of science’s most tantalizing frontiers: materials capable of conducting electricity with zero resistance. They are the backbone of MRI machines, particle accelerators, and the dream of next-generation quantum devices. But until now, the process of making them has been slow, rigid, and rooted in decades-old methods. That just changed. Cornell researchers have unveiled a one-step 3D-printing process that doesn’t just simplify how superconductors are made—it unlocks unprecedented performance, shattering records with magnetic field strengths of 40 to 50 Tesla. To put that in perspective, the magnets used at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider peak around 8 Tesla. Cornell’s breakthrough isn’t just incremental; it’s transformative.
Continue reading… “3D-Printed Superconductors Smash Barriers and Redefine the Future of Power”3D Printing Blood Vessels to Rethink Stroke Treatment
The human brain’s blood vessels are like a complex highway network—narrow, winding, and constantly in motion. When a blockage forms, it’s not just a traffic jam; it’s the beginning of a stroke, one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide. Current medical fixes—like stents, balloons, and surgical bypasses—help clear the jam, but they’re blunt tools that can’t replicate the intricate biology of the brain’s vascular system.
Now, researchers in South Korea have pulled off something extraordinary: they’ve 3D-printed brain blood vessels that can recreate both healthy and diseased blood flow, opening the door to more realistic stroke models and personalized therapies.
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For centuries, metallurgy has been a slow, brute-force art—smelting, mixing, hammering, and hoping the end product has the right properties. But Caltech scientists have just detonated that tradition with a breakthrough that turns metalmaking into a precision craft, letting researchers dial in alloy compositions like a DJ spinning tracks.
Their new approach, an extension of hydrogel-infusion additive manufacturing (HIAM), doesn’t just make parts—it engineers metal at the atomic scale. The process starts with a 3D-printed hydrogel scaffold, which is soaked in metallic salt solutions. The hydrogel burns away in a high-heat calcination process, leaving behind metal oxides. Then, under a hydrogen-rich environment, oxygen is stripped out and the final alloy emerges—dense, strong, and shaped exactly as designed.
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It sounds like something straight out of a sci-fi novel—colonists on the Moon building cities from nothing but sunlight and lunar dirt. But in a laboratory in Hefei, China, engineers have turned this fantasy into working hardware.
The Deep Space Exploration Laboratory has developed a 3D-printing-style machine that takes lunar regolith—the powdery soil covering the Moon—and uses concentrated sunlight to melt it into tough, functional bricks. No glue. No additives. No supply rockets hauling cement from Earth. Just heat, dust, and ingenuity.
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GM didn’t just build an electric pickup truck. They built a road-going endurance machine that just rewrote the record books.
In a feat that will make every gas-guzzling truck feel ancient, the 2026 Chevrolet Silverado EV Max Range Work Truck has officially gone 1,059 miles on a single charge — crushing the previous world record of 749 miles set by the Lucid Air Grand Touring earlier this year.
The Silverado EV already launched in 2024 with a best-in-class standard range and a 10,000-pound towing capacity. But for this test, GM engineers took a production Max Range WT — no hardware or software changes, just tweaks allowed in the owner’s manual — and turned it into a rolling endurance legend.
Continue reading… “The Chevy Silverado EV Just Shattered the World Range Record —1,059 miles on a single charge”The 3D-Printed Exoskeleton That Learns Your Hand
At first glance, it looks like something out of a cyberpunk film—a sleek, skeletal glove clinging to your hand like a second skin. But this isn’t science fiction. At Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology (IWU), researchers are engineering custom 3D-printed exoskeletons that adapt to your exact hand shape, strength profile, and even your injury history.
The concept is deceptively simple: combine a precise 3D scan of your hand with parametric CAD design and selective laser sintering (SLS) to print an exoskeleton that matches your anatomy, not some average model. Every curve, joint angle, and finger length is taken into account. No two devices are the same—because no two hands are the same.
Continue reading… “The 3D-Printed Exoskeleton That Learns Your Hand”From Blueprint to Bio-Machine: The New Era of On-Demand Protein Design
For decades, protein engineering has been a game of mix-and-match—cutting fragments from nature’s molecular machines and hoping they’d play nice together. It worked sometimes, failed often, and always took time. Now, thanks to a project out of TU Graz called HelixMold, that trial-and-error era may be ending.
Imagine opening a software interface, typing in what you want a protein to do—break down stubborn plastics, assemble a complex drug molecule, detect a rare toxin—and getting a ready-to-build molecular design in minutes. Not a wild guess. Not a borrowed enzyme from nature. A custom-built protein, tailor-made for the job.
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Forget bricks. Forget mortar. Forget the months-long grind of scaffolding, dust storms, and crews working dawn to dusk just to complete a single floor.
In a quiet corner of Metzingen, Germany, a new era of construction just roared to life—and it did so one printed layer at a time.
ZÜBLIN and INSTATIQ didn’t just build apartments. They printed them. Using the Instatiq P1—an on-site 3D concrete printer that moves like a robotic boom on steroids—they completed the entire top floor of a four-story residential building without traditional crews, scaffolding, or even specialized materials. It’s the first time in Germany (and one of the first times anywhere) that a structural load-bearing floor of this scale has been fabricated directly on-site using nothing but concrete and code.
Continue reading… “The Printer Has Entered the Construction Site — And Nothing Will Ever Be the Same”China Successfully Tests First Fully 3D-Printed Turbojet Engine in Real Flight
China has successfully completed a real-flight test of a fully 3D-printed miniature turbojet engine, marking a significant milestone in aerospace engineering. The flight took place in Inner Mongolia and reached an altitude of up to 4,000 meters. The engine, developed by the Aero Engine Corporation of China (AECC), is the first in the country to be entirely produced using additive manufacturing and to deliver a thrust of 160 kilograms.
This breakthrough was achieved through a combination of advanced multi-disciplinary topology optimization and 3D printing technology. The design process focused on reducing material in low-stress areas, which significantly reduced the engine’s weight without compromising strength or functionality.
Continue reading… “China Successfully Tests First Fully 3D-Printed Turbojet Engine in Real Flight”New 3D Printing Technique Seamlessly Blends Soft and Hard Materials in a Single Part
A research team at the University of Texas at Austin has developed a groundbreaking 3D printing process that, for the first time, enables the precise integration of soft and hard materials within a single printed component—without introducing mechanical weaknesses where the two properties meet. This innovation, recently published in Nature Materials, marks a major advancement in additive manufacturing.
The method uses a specially formulated photopolymer resin matrix and a dual-exposure approach, employing two distinct wavelengths of light to control material properties at a microscopic level. Violet light initiates a reaction that forms a soft, elastomer-like structure, while higher-energy ultraviolet (UV) light triggers a separate reaction that creates a rigid, thermoplastic-like material. By controlling exposure to each wavelength during the printing process, researchers can seamlessly transition between soft and hard regions within a single object.
Continue reading… “New 3D Printing Technique Seamlessly Blends Soft and Hard Materials in a Single Part”3D-Printed, Bioresorbable Nerve Implants Gain FDA Approval in Breakthrough for Regenerative Medicine
In a major advancement for regenerative medicine and medical 3D printing, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted de novo approval for a new bioresorbable implant designed for peripheral nerve repair. The product, named COAPTIUM Connect, is the result of a collaboration between 3D Systems and French medical technology company Tissium, combining advanced 3D printing techniques with programmable, biocompatible materials.
The implant offers a suture-free, atraumatic solution for reconnecting damaged peripheral nerves. Traditional nerve repair often requires stitches, which can increase trauma and healing time. In contrast, COAPTIUM Connect uses a photopolymer-based elastomeric material that is not only biocompatible and flexible but also fully bioresorbable, meaning the body can naturally break it down over time.
Continue reading… “3D-Printed, Bioresorbable Nerve Implants Gain FDA Approval in Breakthrough for Regenerative Medicine”Breakthrough in 3D-Printed Spinal Cord Organoids for ALS Research
A research team at Uppsala University has developed an innovative method to produce three-dimensional motor nerve cell organoids using a patient’s own skin cells. This advancement aims to facilitate realistic laboratory testing of new therapeutic compounds targeting neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The findings were published in the International Journal of Bioprinting.
ALS progressively damages motor neurons in the spinal cord, leading to muscle weakness and eventual respiratory failure. Direct testing on the spinal cord of affected individuals is not feasible due to medical limitations. To address this, the team led by Elena Kozlova created an in-vitro model. Skin-derived cells were reprogrammed into induced pluripotent stem cells, differentiated into motor neuron precursors, and embedded in a gelatinous hydrogel. These were then assembled layer by layer using 3D printing technology.
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