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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 ...

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

Candy machines once offered much more variety. Office hallways, bus stations, bowling alleys, and laundromats stocked bars that barely survived past the 1970s or 1980s. A few disappeared due to poor ...

Engineers have modified the cotton candy machine to create complex microfluidic networks that mimic the capillary system in living tissue and have demonstrated that these networks can keep cells alive ...