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Tuning 3D Printed Flexible Materials with Microfluidics Droplet System

As the name suggests, microfluidics is centered around the behavior, manipulation, and control of fluids that have been constrained to a very small scale. Obviously, accurate handling is of the…

Researchers Use 3D Virtual Reality Houses to Explore Memory

Have you ever thought about a really good memory – the day you graduated school, or maybe when you won a prize – or a very sad memory, like the…

UC Davis Vet Team Helps Pup Heal with 3D Printed Mask

Three months ago, Loca was just a playful little puppy, like any other. That all changed when she was viciously attacked by another dog whose bite caused extensive damage to…

UC Davis Mathematician Uses 3D Printing to Deliver New Insight into Moving Sofa Problem

Like many people of my generation, I have moved many, many times in the last decade or so. I just moved again last month, and I’m hoping to stay in…

How MakerBot Helped Design the Space Telescope of the Future

How often do you stop to think about the number and variety of objects that are floating around out in space? Not just the natural celestial objects and the rocks,…

UC Davis Students Build Robotic “Project Naughty Ball”

Hengjiu Kang, Yi Lu, and Yunan Song are students at the University of California Davis, juniors and seniors with a mighty impressive list of career-starting projects and internships. Kang is a…

‘Hobbes’ the Terrier to Receive 3D Printed Prosthetic Front Leg with Special Harness

With 3D printing affecting so many different facets of nearly every field these days — or at least garnering an interest — it’s no surprise that we humans are using…