News tagged with cotton candy

Using cotton candy to create bloodflow routes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cotton candy has delighted children for a century. Now it may have found a new role: helping scientists grow replacement tissues for people. The flossy stuff may be just right for creating networks of blood ...

Chemistry /

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1




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New cotton candy-like glass fibers appear to speed healing in venous stasis wound trial

Imagine a battlefield medic or emergency medical technician providing first aid with a special wad of cottony glass fibers that simultaneously slows bleeding, fights bacteria (and other sources of infection), stimulates the ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

SU biologist partners with National Park Service to study bison grazing in Yellowstone

While Yellowstone's celebrated bison may be among the most popular tourist attractions in the park, their grazing habits and increasing numbers have raised questions about the long-term stability of the park's grasslands. ...

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 20, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Some males react to competition like bonobos, others like chimpanzees

The average man experiences hormone changes similar to the passive bonobo prior to competition, but a "status-striving" man undergoes changes that mirror those found in a chimpanzee, say researchers from Duke and Harvard ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 28, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Inspired by a cotton candy machine, engineers put a new spin on creating tiny nanofibers

Hailed as a "cross between a high-speed centrifuge and a cotton candy machine," bioengineers at Harvard have developed a new, practical technology for fabricating tiny nanofibers.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 25, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Smoke-spewing Trabant poised for rebirth as electric car

Once the much-mocked symbol of drab communist East Germany, Trabant cars are revving up for a dramatic rebirth as electric cars -- 20 years after they drove through the fallen Berlin Wall to freedom.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Are you a twit if you don't want to Twitter?

(AP) -- Eily Toyama gave in after friends pestered her to join Facebook. But she used her cat's name instead of her own so she could avoid networking requests from people she didn't really want to connect ...

Technology / Internet

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Spun-sugar fibers spawn sweet technique for nerve repair

Researchers at Purdue University have developed a technique using spun-sugar filaments to create a scaffold of tiny synthetic tubes that might serve as conduits to regenerate nerves severed in accidents or ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 2


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