A computational design tool created by researchers at Carnegie Mellon and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology lets you fold a piece of metal or plastic into a “complex 3D shape” like a m ...

The next big thing in 3D printing ... created flat structures that can transform into much more complicated structures than had previously been achieved, including a human face.

Erik Gatenholm grins widely as he presses the start button on a 3D printer ... life-size human nose. It sparks a frenzied 30-minute burst of energy from the printer, as its thin metal needle ...

Chinese scientists in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of southern China used 3D technology to reconstruct the face of a prehistoric human who lived ... and a flat nose structure.

Although there are several methods of 3D-printing metal objects, all of them involve ... but are easier to print as a flat pattern. In the video below, you can see how the gel was used to 3D ...