It wasn’t so long ago that 3D printing was the new kid on the block. Now the term 4D printing is making headlines, stretching our ability to conceptualize once again. To understand 4D printing, it ...

Gutenberg’s printing press revolutionized the way the written word was replicated, bringing two-dimensional printing into the world and so vastly increasing accessibility of information. From that ...

It's like something out of Westworld, but it's quite real. The wild future of 4D design A manufacturing technique from MIT's Self-Assembly Lab that is poised to disrupt everything from furniture to ...

Three-dimensional printing, also known as additive manufacturing, takes a digital blueprint and turns it into a physical object using computer-aided design (CAD). A repeating 2D structure is built up, ...

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Why OpenAI’s new model is such a big deal Last week OpenAI ...

While we are still trying to understand the possibilities and limits of three-dimensional printing and additive manufacturing, a new term has emerged for our vocabulary. 4D printing is nothing more ...