(Nanowerk News) An international team of astronomers led by Mathilde Jauzac, from the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université), has carried out the first ...

Believe it or not, you can now squeeze wood through the nozzle of your 3D printer. This new addition to the maker’s palette of 3D printer filaments comes from the mind of [Kai Parthy]. The new ...

They usually don't bother with plastic, however, because it has almost no value. But thanks to an emerging market, waste plastic may soon be a more alluring target; it can serve as a feedstock for 3D ...

Like a high-tech Rumpelstiltskin, you may soon be able to spin straw into plastic. A new filament, made by Chinese manufacturer Jiangsu Jinghe Hi-Tech Co., is made primarily of straw and a plastic ...

A colossal cosmic filament, measuring 50 million light-years long, has been discovered spinning in deep space, astonishing astronomers with its scale and movement. The filament, which contains more ...

Greek philosopher Plato may have famously said “he was a wise man who invented beer,” but is a man or startup who has found a use for the dregs smarter again? That’s a question to be asked of 3D ...

Anyone looking for a unique 3D printing filament might be interested in Buzzed which has been creating using a byproduct of the beer making process. A 1kg spool of Buzzed filament is priced at $49, ...

Scientists have discovered a giant cosmic filament where galaxies spin in sync with the structure that holds them together.

By the power of interchangeable nozzles, the Filabot can produce filament that’s 3mm or 1.75mm, depending on your needs. In addition to rejected 3D prints, the Filabot recycles just about any kind of ...

Scientists have discovered a massive, rotating galactic filament stretching about 50 million light-years across, containing roughly 300 galaxies that are all spinning ...

While multi-material 3D printers do already exist, the filament that they extrude is typically all one material at any one point in the printing process. A new system produces actual multi-material ...

Most types of production create waste products that either end up in our air, oceans, or landfills. One lesser known contributor to this problem is beer manufacturing, which produces byproducts that ...