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Cotton candy—a.k.a. candy floss, tooth floss, and fairy floss—is a type of spun sugar that you might guess is good for nothing other than inducing sugar comas in whining children and providing an ...

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Cotton candy machines may hold the key for making life-sized artificial livers, kidneys, bones and other essential organs. Newswise — For several years, Leon Bellan, assistant professor of mechanical ...

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You may have seen some pretty unusual ways to make artificial organs, but Vanderbilt University might have just topped them all. Its researchers have developed a technique for making the templates of ...

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 ...