Drawing inspiration from how plants change shape in response to environmental stimuli, Harvard scientists from the Wyss Institute and John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have ...

Nowadays, 3D printing allows items to be created from a wide variety of materials — plastic, ceramic, glass, metal and even stranger ingredients such as chocolate and living cells. The machines work ...

Xinyi Xiao is two years into conducting research on thermo-responsive and self-morphing 4D printing technology alongside masters student Surya Prakash Pandeya. Xiao is an assistant professor in the ...

Proposed by scientists at MIT, 4D printing can revolutionize the way objects are not only printed but also created and used. The idea, unveiled first by MIT scientist and TED fellow Skyler Tibbits at ...

A new 4D-printing technique that creates complex structures in minutes could be used to make temperature-activated cardiac stents, drug capsules and flat-pack furniture. Zhen Ding at the Singapore ...

Radar is getting hot, especially with advancements that promise object identification/classification and higher latitude resolution — something traditional radars ...

Printed polymers that change shape once in a predefined way when heated? This is now possible thanks to a 4D printing technology developed in the Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Programmable ...

As if 3D printing wasn't revolutionary enough, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are adding a fourth dimension. "We're proposing that the fourth dimension is time and that over ...

We are said that the real world in which humans live is present in three dimensions or four dimensions. "Three-dimensional" is a relatively easy-to-understand concept for people who live while ...