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3D Printing Can Revolutionize the Construction Industry

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By Shawn Clayton

When a company can print an entire home in less than 24 hours for under $10,000, it’s somewhat surprising that it’s not front-page news for several days in a row. However, most people haven’t even heard of start-up companies like Apis Cor and New Story. These organizations are making tremendous strides to close a gap and provide functioning homes to the many people who need them with the help of 3D printing. While still in its infancy, additive manufacturing may soon be poised to revolutionize an industry that, in many ways, could desperately use a shake-up. (more…)

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Exploring the secret life of house sparrows with the aid of a 3D printer

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Since it was introduced to North America in the late 19th century, the house sparrow has received little love. “Nothing can be urged in its favor,” declared an 1891 editorial in the New York Times. A few years later, the same newspaper deemed the birds “rats in the air.” Adding insult to injury, the International Union for Conservation of Nature has long kept the house sparrow on its unceremonious list of species of “least concern.” (more…)

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Google Glass Explorer: UD engineer explores use of computer vision to enable better health care

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Google Glass Explorers are using the novel wearable computers for applications ranging from wildlife preservation and museum tours to precision sports training and on-the-go language translation.

For the University of Delaware’s Jingyi Yu, Google Glass is one more device in a “smart health” toolkit that has the potential to profoundly change medical training, diagnostics and treatment. (more…)

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Dr. Mark Michalski is ready to print a 3-D brain (maybe yours)

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In a year’s time, the 3-D printers at Yale’s Center for Engineering Innovation and Design (CEID) have churned out countless parts, prototypes, and curiosity-driven experiments in plastic — rotorheads and racecar uprights, cardiac pump pieces and thermostats, snowmen, keychains, and fantastical geometric shapes. (more…)

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Vortex Loops Could Untie Knotty Physics Problems

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University of Chicago physicists have succeeded in creating a vortex knot—a feat akin to tying a smoke ring into a knot. Linked and knotted vortex loops have existed in theory for more than a century, but creating them in the laboratory had previously eluded scientists.

Vortex knots should, in principle, be persistent, stable phenomena. “The unexpected thing is that they’re not,” said Dustin Kleckner, a postdoctoral scientist at UChicago’s James Franck Institute. “They seem to break up in a particular way. They stretch themselves, which is a weird behavior.” (more…)

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