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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In addition, many of these other techniques are not able to form networks as complex as the cotton candy approach. Bellan's focus on this unique use of a cotton candy machine dates back to graduate ...

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 ...

Often found at fairgrounds, carnivals, and circuses, sold on sticks and enjoyed by many, the sticky clouds of brightly colored spun sugar that make up cotton candy are familiar to all. The wispy puffs ...

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