From growing a full thymus gland inside a mouse, to creating a slice of artificial liver tissue, to using ink jet printing technology to create a human ear, researchers are steadily moving us toward ...

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 ...

Heat the sugar until it melts into a syrup, then spin the hot liquid through the holes in the machine. Centrifugal force ...

Cotton-based manufacturing in the UK has experienced a resurgence during the last few years on the back of growing demand for Made in Britain product, but the missing piece of the jigsaw has been ...

A Japanese woman had her entire scalp torn off her head in an accident with a cotton spinning machine. The woman caught her long hair in the machine, which twists together cotton fibers to make thread ...