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They’re Taking Jigsaw Puzzles to Infinity and Beyond
In upstate New York, two algorithmic artists make wooden puzzles inspired by natural forms. Source
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3-D Printing Grows Beyond Its Novelty Roots
DEVENS, Mass. — The machines stand 20 feet high, weigh 60,000 pounds and represent the technological frontier of 3-D printing. Each machine deploys 150 laser beams, projected from a gantry and moving quickly back and […]
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Doctors Transplant 3-D Printed Ear Made of Human Cells
3DBio Therapeutics, a biotech company in Queens, said it had for the first time used 3-D printing to make a body part with a patient’s own cells. Source
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The 2021 Good Tech Awards
In the tech industry, 2021 was a year of profits and pivots. Thanks in part to the pandemic and the digitization of our lives, all of the big tech companies got bigger. Facebook changed its […]
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This Ink Is Alive and Made Entirely of Microbes
“Imagine creating buildings that heal themselves,” Dr. Datta said. To Dr. Joshi, the best analogy may be a seed’s transformation into a tree. A seed has all the information it needs to harvest the energy […]
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How an 11-Foot-Tall 3-D Printer Is Helping to Create a Community
Square Feet Three-dimensional printing can create nearly any object. A partnership in Mexico is putting that theory to the test, building a village for residents living in poverty. By Debra Kamin Pedro García Hernández, 48, […]
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How the ‘Wandering Meatloaf’ Got Its Rock-Hard Teeth
The gumboot chiton is not a glamorous creature. The large, lumpy mollusk creeps along the waters of the Pacific coast, pulling its reddish-brown body up and down the shoreline. It is sometimes known, not unreasonably, […]