Engineers spend billions trying to create materials that are strong and lightweight. Now, scientists are taking inspiration ...

For a couple of years now, I've been trying to find an excuse to buy a decent 3D printer. Friends and fellow Ars staffers who had them would gush about them at every opportunity, talking about how ...

NASA considering a number of designs for its future Mars colonists, from 3D-printed habitats to structures grown from mushrooms. To combat dangerous surface-level radiation on the Red Planet ...

Oppo will soon add three new phones to the Find X8 series – the Find X8s, Find X8s+, and Find X8 Ultra. The company has designed a whole bunch of new wallpapers. The collection has five stock ...

Researchers at the University of Washington have mixed coffee grounds, mushroom spores, and mycelium to 3D-print a ‘compostable’ packaging material said to perform similarly to polystyrene dunnage.

To upgrade the Jubilee 3D printer in the Machine Agency Lab at the University of Washington, Luo also developed a print head with a larger capacity (1 liter) for the paste, so various objects could ...

The packing material around this small glass was 3D printed from used coffee grounds. A white mycelium (sort of a root system for mushrooms) grows on the outside, which turns the grounds into a ...

Coffee grounds and Reishi mushroom spores can be 3D printed into a compostable alternative to plastics. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 02 ...

Swiss researchers may have found a solution: a 3D-printed battery that is also biodegradable ... In the next step, the Empa team wants to improve its mushroom battery so that it is more efficient ...

A 24-year-old resident of the home reportedly told police he made guns with a 3D printer as a hobby, after officers were called there for a report that the man was behaving erratically and arguing ...