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

Chris Borge] has made (and revised) many of his own tools using a combination of 3D printing and common hardware, and recently decided to try metal casting. Having created his own tapping arm, he ...

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

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

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 ...