It's the epic quest of campers everywhere: How do you get the perfectly toasted marshmallow? In our inaugural installment of NPR's Summer Science series, we gave some guidance on the first key ...

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ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Evelyn Rose, 4, of Brighton faced a tough choice in the Baby Lab at the University of Rochester: eat a luscious-looking marshmallow in a yellow dessert cup or wait a few minutes and ...

A marshmallow cannon? Greatest. Invention. Ever. It sure seems Bill Nye (you know, the Science Guy) thinks so as 14 year-old Joey Hudy shows off his creation during yesterday’s Science Fair at the ...

Since the late 1960s, marshmallows have been a symbol of temptation thanks to a series of experiments on delayed gratification conducted at Stanford University. Now, those groundbreaking tests are the ...

A four-year-old girl reenacts the marshmallow test (Credit: J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester) When I wrote about the marshmallow test several years ago, it seemed so simple: A child was given ...

VIDEO - President Obama launched shots from a marshmallow gun at a science fair that took place in the White House... President Obama launched shots from a marshmallow gun at a science fair that took ...

1) Place large marshmallow inside launch tube. Marshmallow should easily slide down tube on its own. Never look into launch tube! 2) Connect tire pump. Pump until you reach about 75 pounds of pressure ...

Boyle's law is a gas law. When the temperature is consistent, then the pressure and volume of a gas have an inverse relationship. This means that when you reduce one, the other will increase. In this ...

Wilderness is nice, but hands down, the number one reason to go camping is to incinerate food over a fiery pit. Everything tastes better when it’s burned over flames, especially marshmallows. But ...