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It won’t happen overnight but it will happen.
Researchers have found a way to turn cheap 3D printers into a simple method for making super-strong but light composite materials for things like aircraft.
Copyright law had to figure out how to deal with digital media. Now 3D printers – and their capacity for infringement – are poised to challenge the patent system in a similar way.
The discovery of Homo naledi has been a social media sensation, recording an extraordinary number of views – more than 170,000 – for a scientific paper.
Using technology to recreate heritage items can help connect nations.
At the nexus of medical science, engineering, computer science and 3D printing is the biofabricator, a new career for the 21st century.
A new study has shown that high frequency vibrations can cause bricks to self-assemble into a larger 3D cylinder, a finding that may one day help do away with the need for assembly lines.
Imagine if you could build a home on the moon out of moon dust. That just one of the possibilities being explored for 3D printing.
Here’s how some of the world’s oldest cultural institutions are using drones and 3D printing to bring their collections to life.
A new hopping robot shows how unusual 3D printed structures could pave the way for machines that better mimic living creatures.
Australia has a bright future in advanced manufacturing, but it will be a turbulent transition that we need to manage carefully.
A company plans to flood the market with synthetic rhinoceros horn in an effort to slow poaching but these types of commercially driven conservation efforts are fraught with problems.
3D printing robots are to create a new bridge in Amsterdam - would you walk on it?
The World Economic Forum’s new list of the Top Ten emerging technologies reminds us that the promise of innovation comes with responsibilities.
An app that can unlock your front door with a digital key and the latest wearable sex tech OhMiBod are just some of the next generation of high-tech gadgets and devices on display this week at the International…
Have you considered buying a 3D printer? A major spectacle at the Consumer Entertainment Show in Las Vegas for the last two years, they’re now available for as little as £300 – around the same price as…
Additive manufacturing – or 3D printing – is 30 years old this year. Today, it’s found not just in industry but in households, as the price of 3D printers has fallen below US$1,000. Knowing you can print…
Don’t be mesmerised by cool apps and flashy new gizmos – the top technology inventions of the year are ones that will have a lasting effect. Most are advances in fields that are already changing us. Some…
Computer Weekly has released its Tech Top 50 of current UK leaders in IT: people whose influence affects us all in various ways, or who are developing new technologies to change our lives now, or in the…
Top contributors
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John M. Thompson Chair in Information Technology and Innovation and Professor, Western University
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Former Academic Research Fellow, Khalifa University
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Senior lecturer, University of Wollongong
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Head of Research Compute Services, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor in Additive Manufacturing Management, University of Nottingham
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Lecturer, University of Adelaide
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Professor in Intellectual Property and Innovation Law, Queensland University of Technology
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SHARP Professor, leader of the Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Centre, UNSW Sydney, and leader of the UNSW Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, UNSW Sydney
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Research Fellow, University of Wollongong
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Research Engineer, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Intellectual Property and Innovation Law; Director Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Managament (CIPPM), Bournemouth University, Bournemouth University
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sheffield
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VC Postdoctoral Fellow, RMIT University
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Associate Professor in Civil Engineering and Environmental Materials, Brunel University London
