Aluminum is one of the most useful metals in modern life. It is light, strong, affordable, and easy to recycle. That is why ...

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Aluminum is prized for being lightweight and strong, but at high temperatures it loses strength. This has limited its use in ...

Rocket engineering is shifting from painstaking machining and welding to a world where engines and tanks emerge from printers ...

Researchers have come up with a 3D printing method using liquid metal that's claimed to produce structures at least 10 times faster than existing metal additive manufacturing processes, though it does ...

In an experiment that sounds about as safe as bobbing for fries, ESA carried out the first-ever 3D metal printing in space aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Built with Airbus, the Metal 3D ...

Researchers are leveraging machine learning to improve additive manufacturing, also commonly known as 3D printing. The team introduces a new framework they've dubbed the Accurate Inverse process ...

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The accomplishment "paves the way for long-distance and long-duration missions where creating spare parts, construction components, and tools on demand will be essential." When you purchase through ...

Researchers have found special atomic patterns called quasicrystals in 3D-printed aluminum alloys. Quasicrystals increase the strength of 3D-printed aluminum, the researchers discovered, making it ...

In a quiet corner of Switzerland, researchers have stopped treating metal like something to be melted and poured, and started ...