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Shapes 3D printed into living worms could be future of brain implants

A technique to 3D print conductive circuits directly into living organisms could one day be used in humans

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Glowing shapes

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Ukraine is building an AI to help triage shrapnel injuries

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3D-printed cake made from 7 different pastes and finished by a laser

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The 3D printed cheesecake
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The first 3D-printed rocket is about to launch into space

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A mechanical neural network

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Mechanical neural network could enable smart aircraft wings that morph

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A specialized robotic drone sprays layers of cement to create a cylindrical structure in a clean laboratory setting with white background behind a staging area for the structure's construction

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Drone swarm that 3D prints cement structures could construct buildings

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Tweaser based ont he shape of a crow's beak

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Tweezers based on a crow's beak can outperform traditional ones

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3D-printed lenses that can ignore certain objects in frame

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AI-created lenses let camera ignore some objects when taking pictures

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Wood ink printed as a flat rectangle is programmed to form a complex shape after drying and solidifying. (Ruler is marked in centimeters.)

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3D-printed wood could start flat then twist into furniture as it dries

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Bricks made of dust from the moon and Mars could make space buildings

Baking a mixture of saltwater and materials that mimic dust from the moon or Mars at a high temperature produced sturdy bricks that could be used to build human habitats in space

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Mare Crisium is a large, dark, basaltic plain on the Moon that filled an ancient asteroid impact. Basaltic plains on the Moon were created by early volcanic eruptions. Mare Crisium was flooded with basaltic lava, a dark, runny lava commonly found on Earth. Basaltic plains on the Moon are also known as lunar maria, because of a mistaken belief by early astronomers that these dark areas were oceans ? ?maria? is the Latin word for ?seas.? We now know these spots to be plains of basalt created by early volcanic eruptions, but the nomenclature of ?maria? (plural) or ?mare? (singular) remains. The basalts in Mare Crisium range in age from 2.5 to 3.3 billion years old! These dates come from measuring the radioactive isotope signatures of samples returned from Mare Crisium by the Soviet Luna 24 mission. Along the rim of Mare Crisium lies an outer boundary of wrinkle ridges. Wrinkle ridges are commonly found in places where the surface has contracted. As the surface is compressed, it bends and fractures, and can form complicated patterns of faults and folds.

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Laser-based 3D printer can produce complex objects in any order

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Hackers could sabotage 4D printed objects to cause malicious failures

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3D-printed 'living ink' is full of microbes and can release drugs

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US army to 3D print concrete buildings and bridges in disaster areas

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