The Incredible Shrinking Factory: How Your Desktop Became a Production Line

Published on Sept. 9, 2025, 12:23 p.m.

It’s 1985. An art director, accustomed to the slow, expensive churn of typesetters and paste-up boards, watches in disbelief as…

The Ghost in the Mug: How Physics Prints Impossible Images onto 3D Objects

Published on Sept. 9, 2025, 12:14 p.m.

Consider the coffee mug on your desk. Perhaps it’s a simple, unassuming ceramic vessel. Or perhaps it’s a vessel of memory, ado…