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 ...

Hailed as a "cross between a high-speed centrifuge and a cotton candy machine," a new, practical technology for fabricating tiny nanofibers has been developed by bioengineers. The reference to the ...

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 ...

For several years, Leon Bellan, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University, has been tinkering with cotton candy machines, getting them to spin out networks of tiny threads ...

Still don’t have anything for Valentine’s Day? We wholeheartedly suggest that you fire up that printer and get ready to fall in love with engineering all over again, because [JBV Creative] has ...