3D printing has promised a revolution in manufacturing, but 4D printing could usher in something truly extraordinary. New research published to Materials Horizons by a team from Rutgers University has ...

The rapid growth of commercial space has unlocked exciting new opportunities for the U.S. federal government. Many of these possibilities lie in the field of geospatial intelligence, or GEOINT, and ...

It may seem distinctly low-tech compared to some of the many technology trends I write about, but 3D and 4D printing will have very wide applications – and could be particularly powerful when combined ...

Molecular self-assembly, whereby molecules position themselves into defined arrangements, is commonplace in biological systems and nanotechnology. But researchers at MIT are working on so called "4D ...

In the latest research in the field of materials science and engineering, researchers have made remarkable progress in the 3D and 4D printing of electromagnetic metamaterials (EMMs). This breakthrough ...

Two meters is the length of a mammalian cell's DNA if the chromosomes are placed end to end. In the cell, these two meters are spooled around proteins and folded into the nucleus, which is an ...