As 3-D printers become an important part of modern manufacturing, they could make manufacturers more vulnerable to attacks by hackers and criminals, with a recent experiment showing how the ...

3-D printed ‘ghost guns’ pose new challenges for crime-scene investigators. New methods are needed to do ballistics on plastic guns — before the weapons gain popularity.

But some innovations can also present new public safety concerns — and such is the case with guns built using 3-D printers. Agents at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have ...

As 3-D printed guns have evolved over the past 18 months from a science-fictional experiment into a subculture, they've faced a fundamental limitation: Cheap plastic isn't the best material to ...

Three-D printing is being applied to heart surgery, not to make new hearts, but to make models of unprecedented detail. Accessibility links. Skip to main content; Skip to main Navigation; ...

The resulting 3-D reference brain will allow researchers worldwide to study the organ in unprecedented physical detail, paving the way for deeper understanding of how processes like cognition and ...

The 3-D-printing foundry in Devens, Mass., about 40 miles northwest of Boston, is owned by VulcanForms, a start-up that came out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.