That’s basically what a 3D printer does. The 3D printing process turns a whole object into thousands of tiny little slices, then makes it from the bottom-up, slice by slice.

By 3D printing organs like a liver or a spleen, researchers can better understand how each one is affected by an impact. So far, Humanetics has made just two of the elderly dummies, which are ...

The idea of using placeholders in 3D printing emerged last year in the form of stickers to represent where a button would be placed in an object, but it was difficult to get the appropriate depth for ...