Margie Delfelder and Lary Trowbridge pause their cotton candy making on Oct. 30, 2023 to show off their sweet treats. The couple had made about 200 bags by late afternoon, with the goal of making ...

NASHVILLE, Feb. 9 (UPI) --The mechanics of a cotton candy machine are proving useful to the quest to build life-sized artificial organs. Capillaries are the body's most narrow blood vessels. The ...

Go to your local fair and watch a carny spin you a cone of candy floss. You might not know it, but that’s how your body is put together: the structure of cotton candy is remarkably similar to the ...

It’s been said that innovation often happens when you least expect it. And sometimes, a discovery is staring right at you—but you just have to take a deeper look to appreciate it. In this case, the ...

One recent evening, I had some rare access to the remote control for our television and landed on a show called “ 101 Fast Foods That Changed the World .” I was intrigued. Not limited to drive-thru ...

Scientists are getting closer to being able to grow human tissue in a lab that can replace what a patient has lost in an accident or to disease. One of the key problems they face is replicating the ...

Well, here’s something you don’t get to write about every day — a Chinese engineer is receiving praise from all over the world for his ingenuity in turning an old hard-disk drive into a fully ...

Who says science can’t be delicious? Leon Bellan, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University, is developing a way to make artificial blood vessels using a modified ...

on Feb. 4, Bellan and his team of researchers reported that they were successful at producing a three-dimensional artificial capillary system that can keep living cells viable and functional for more ...