September 19, 2026
3D Printed Bone Scaffolds Mix PCL and Carbon Dots
3D printed bone scaffolds from Tehran mix PCL with carbon dots from black cumin; more filler aids cells but cuts compressive strength about threefold.
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3D printing for classrooms and university labs
STEM programs, classroom workflows, and lab stories for K–12, makerspaces, and university engineering.
September 16, 2026
3D Concrete Printing Enters a Polytechnic Classroom
3D concrete printing arrives in UW-Stout classrooms as Alquist robots extrude walls; a new certificate trains students who placed rebar in a campus planter.
Read article →September 8, 2026
3D Printed MRI Coils Fit Kids in Minutes
3D printed MRI coils from USC aim to fit infants in minutes: silver-ink sensors on stretchable elastomer for clearer pediatric scans.
Read article →September 7, 2026
Ice 3D Printing Uses Vacuum, Not a Freezer
Ice 3D printing news this week: Amsterdam physicists froze a water jet in vacuum, with no freezer, into sacrificial templates for lab channels in PNAS.
Read article →September 3, 2026
3D Printing Education Turns Student-Led This Fall
3D printing education news: Bambu Lab’s 50 school ambassadors ran 41 summer events reaching more than 30,000 people as fall classes resume across North America.
Read article →August 31, 2026
Stratasys Expands 3D-Printed Prosthetics Partnership
3D-printed prosthetics are the student-lab job at UCF this week: Stratasys and Limbitless expanded a 12-year partnership and donated a refurbished F370.
Read article →August 27, 2026
3D-Printed Kirigami Cylinders Morph on a Rotary Printer
3D-printed kirigami cylinders on a Snapmaker rotary module snap from stiff tubes to soft vases this week, so STEM labs can program crush without swapping TPU.
Read article →August 26, 2026
3D-Printed Zirconia Crowns May Fit One Dental Visit
3D-printed zirconia crowns news: UT Dallas cuts ceramic VPP debinding from 20–100 hours to under 30 minutes, aiming at same-day dental visits this week.
Read article →August 24, 2026
3D-Printed Acoustic Cavities Power Tiny Robots
3D-printed acoustic cavities turn speaker tones into thrust: EPFL boats steer without motors, and 150-µg microfliers climb on ultrasound this week in labs.
Read article →August 12, 2026
Recycled 3D Printing Filament Gets a Campus Extruder Playbook
Recycled 3D printing filament just got a low-cost campus extruder patent from NIT Rourkela. What closed-loop FDM recycling means for STEM labs.
Read article →August 11, 2026
3D Printing STEM Education Gets a Statewide NSF Hub
3D printing STEM education just gained an $8M NSF hub in Nebraska. What NE3D’s student pipeline means for labs teaching design-to-print healthcare skills.
Read article →August 4, 2026
STEM 3D Printing Camps Teach Design Before the Print
STEM 3D printing camps that teach Onshape CAD before the first print help students own the full design-to-prototype loop. Lessons from Mahidol’s Toy Maker workshop.
Read article →August 3, 2026
3D Printing Education Starts With Teachers — NMSU’s DREAM Workshop
3D printing education starts with teachers. What NMSU’s DREAM workshop for K-12 educators means for classroom STEM and lasting adoption.
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