Charging forward at top speed, a garden snail slimes up 1 millimeter of pavement per second. By this logic, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology researchers' new 3D printing process ...

Bamboo rope may come as a surprise to many Westerners, but it shouldn't, as people throughout history have used this versatile grass in perhaps more ways than they have used any other plant in the ...

Researchers in Beckman's Autonomous Materials Systems Group created "growth printing," which mimics tree trunks' outward expansion to print polymer parts quickly and efficiently without ... home use ...