Researchers at the Mediated Matter Group at MIT Media Lab have created Aguahoja, a collection of natural artifacts that were digitally designed and robotically fabricated from the molecular components found in trees, insect exoskeletons, apples and bones.

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have used fine-scale 3D bioprinting to grow cells that are highly uniform in shape and size, and potentially with certain functions.

NASA has announced three finalists in an ongoing design competition, the latest stage of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA’s) 3D-printed Habitat Challenge.

Boston-based MIT Media Lab spinoff Formlabs has today launched two new 3D printers at the Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) show in Chicago

Auburn University’s Samuel Ginn College of Engineering announced that NASA has awarded a three-year, $5.2 million contract to its National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence

Relativity, the Los Angeles-based manufacturer fo 3D printed rockets, has signed its first public commercial contract with Telesat, the renowned global satellite operator

Silicon Valley company AREVO has announced a partnership with boutique bike manufacturer Franco Bicycles to deliver the world’s first 3D printed, continuous carbon fiber single-piece unibody frame for a new line of eBikes.

GE Research is leading a $2.5 MM project through the Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (ARPA-E) High Intensity Thermal Exchange through Materials and Manufacturing Processes program (HITEMMP) to develop a high temperature, high pressure and super-compact heat exchanger enabled by additive manufacturing technology.

French biotechnology company Poietis has announced the granting of a third patent for its laser-assisted 3D bioprinting technology.

The Prime Minister has confirmed he'll be campaigning in favour of a 'yes' vote in the national same-sex marriage postal survey. Voters who wish to participate in the voluntary ballot have less than two weeks to confirm their enrolment. Malcolm Turnbull says while he'll be voting yes but he hasn't yet decided if he'll join the Opposition Leader in writing to all Australians urging them to do the same.

South Australia's energy needs have been given another boost, with a new solar thermal plant to be built in Port Augusta. The SA Premier says the 150MW facility will provide all of the State Government's power needs, and will also generate hundreds of jobs. The Mayor of Port Augusta says it's a historic day for the city, still reeling after the coal-fired power station closed last year.

A computer chip containing the science experiments of a group of Australian school students is hurtling through space this morning, bound for the International Space Station. Students from seven New South Wales schools have been working on ways to make space travel easier. Overnight, their ideas - contained on chip called Raspberry Pie - were fired into space on-board a rocket launched in Florida.

A dumped Liberal party mayor has opened up on the faction bosses he believes are wrecking the Liberals. Steve Russell was Mayor of Hornsby Council in northern Sydney for four and a half years and was expecting to stay on as Mayor after elections next month. But he'd fallen out with powerbrokers in the party who engineered the recently announced decision to abandon merging smaller councils into bigger, more cost-efficient operations. It appears his successor, the former Federal MP Philip Ruddock, knew Mr Russell's fate before the party wielded the knife.

Artist and performer Anne Norman is taking a more literal spin on the phrase 'underground music', guiding people into Darwin's old World War Two tunnels for a series of unconventional performances.

The skills of Paul McClarin are no longer available in Australia, but the results of his vocation are there for all to see at the National Museum in Canberra.

Thanks to medical science we experience more life but also more old age than ever before. But, what if you could slow it all down? What if there was a cure for aging?

Dot paintings swapped for a government four-wheel drive in 1986 are now prized in a Canberra collection.

A successful WA program turning job seekers into beekeepers looks likely to fold when federal funding runs out in 2018.

A priceless 17th-century map of Australia is back on display after being painstakingly restored.

Three objects carefully preserved at Parliament House tell the story of its construction and will form part of a new display.

A retired Canberra surgeon is among 15 Australian veterans returning to England to commemorate Bomber Command during World War II.

The Fair Work Ombudsman releases a report revealing widespread breaches of workplace laws by Caltex franchisees.

Ukrainian-born Iryna Dvoskina and husband Yuriy Vdovychenko are the coaching duo behind a handful of Australia's most incredible para-athletes.

Nine photographic panels, so large that they've never been displayed in public until now, depict the construction of Parliament House in Canberra 30 years ago.

Johannes Frerck was a friendly man who sold sausages and sauerkraut from his Darlinghurst shop he was also a staunch supporter of Adolf Hitler and branded a spy who threatened Australia's security.