SCIENCE

While collecting shellfish for dinner, archaeologist Marie Wood spotted a dinosaur footprint in the Yorkshire cliffside. The footprint is all that remains of a Megalosaurus that trod across Britain 300 million years ago. But the fragile fossil won’t survive long - if erosion doesn’t destroy it, collectors could take it. A local scientist captured images of the footprint hoping to create a 3D model should the fossil disappear - a small example of how 3D printing enhances paleontological research, preserves collections, and makes fossils more accessible to the general public. Figuring Out How Extinct Animals Worked Many paleontologists are using…

The global professional services firm EY has picked Josef Průša as the Czech Republic’s Entrepreneur of the Year, setting the founder of Prusa Research on the path towards EY’s global entrepreneurship award. “My company will only be as good as my people. So we're probably pretty good. And we are moving on,” Průša said when accepting the award. Průša dove into 3D printing in 2009 while studying economics at university. Rather than getting a job upon graduation in 2012, Průša borrowed 200,000 Koruna from his father to found Prusa Research. This was the classic startup operation with Průša boxing up…