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 ...

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 ...

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 ...