Candy canes are a holiday staple with roots dating back to the 1600s. The story suggests that in 1670, a choirmaster in Cologne, Germany, gave children these sugary sticks shaped like a shepherd’s ...

OF CONFECTIONERY. TO SUPPORTER IS COMBINING SWEET WITH SCIENCE. AND INSIDE HER LAB, JUST LIKE ANY OTHER PRECISION IS KEY. CANDY IS MORE COMPLICATED THAN A LOT OF FOOD MATERIALS. JUST BECAUSE OF ALL OF ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) - Who thought STEAM education could be so sweet? A new online video series encourages kids to conduct science experiments with candy using items they have around the house. The ...

From their caramel centers to chocolatey coatings, several widely used candy-making processes go into the production of a single Snickers bar. NurPhoto / Contributor via Getty Images It’s Halloween.

Clad in a white lab coat, scientist Katie Teh squirts syrupy red liquid into quarter size molds on a large metal tray. Her previous effort led to a product that was too soft. So she altered the ...

It was a startling scientific finding: Children who eat candy tend to weigh less than those who don't. Less startling was how it came about. The paper was funded by a trade association representing ...

Upon first biting into a cotton candy grape, I felt sure it had an artificial flavor or that some "weird science" had hacked Mother Nature in vicarious ways. Its resemblance to the classic pink, ...

A Maine lobsterman recently made a one-in-a-hundred-million catch when he pulled up a rare lobster with a bright blue, speckled shell, the color of fairground cotton candy. The lobsterman, Bill ...

Hypnosis played a critical role in the real-life case depicted in Max’s Love & Death. But was it good science? Here’s what the experts say. So (spoiler alert) how in the world did the jury find her ...