The advance could help make 3D printing more sustainable, enabling printing with renewable or recyclable materials that are difficult to characterize.

Produced with techniques borrowed from Japanese paper-cutting, the strong metal lattices are lighter than cork and have customizable mechanical properties.

A new way of machining microscale rotors from diamond crystal can enable ultrasensitive NMR devices for probing proteins and other materials.

The system’s simple repeating elements can assemble into swimming forms ranging from eel-like to wing-shaped.

Researchers make progress toward groups of robots that could build almost anything, including buildings, vehicles, and even bigger robots.

A study shows that yeast, an abundant waste product from breweries, can filter out even trace amounts of lead.

Trained dogs can detect cancer and other diseases by smell. A miniaturized detector can analyze trace molecules to mimic the process.

The subunits could be robotically assembled to produce large, complex objects, including cars, robots, or wind turbine blades.

Tulle-like DefeXtiles can be 3D printed with no custom software or hardware.

Applied computational biology discoveries vastly expand the range of CRISPR’s access to DNA sequences.