What if creating high-quality 3D models no longer required expensive software, specialized hardware, or years of expertise? Enter Meta’s SAM 3D, an open source AI tool that promises to provide ...

The tiny opaque tube that Yonghui Ding holds up to the light in his laboratory looks like a bit of debris from a dismantled ...

The ocean is saturated with microplastics. While we know the location of the great garbage patches, where plastic particles ...

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For the first time, researchers have assembled a complete digital picture of the world’s built environment, mapping every ...

The Washington Free Public Library has officially launched our brand-new 3D Print Club, and I couldn’t be more excited to ...

With the GlobalBuildingAtlas, a research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has created the first ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?

Can you drill a hole in a cube that an identical cube could fall through? Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this question in the 17th century, and he soon found out the answer is yes. One can ...

After more than three centuries, a geometry problem that originated with a royal bet has been solved. Imagine you’re holding two equal-size dice. Is it possible to bore a tunnel through one die that’s ...

Last month, we embarked on a journey into the potential and possibilities that 3D-printed press brake tools offer (see Figure 1). We learned about common filament types and the basic 3D printing ...

Abstract: In recent years, with the rapid growth number of multi-modal 3D shapes, it has become increasingly important to efficiently recognize a vast number of unlabeled multi-modal 3D shapes through ...