—What’s in marshmallows, and how do the ingredients work together to make ooey-gooey treats? “Marshmallows are made of only 3 things, and they come together in a complex chemical dance to make your taste buds sing” Marshmallows seem simple when you look at their powdery, sugary surface. “A marshmallow is a yummy, chewy, airy confection that takes advantage of many unique food-science properties,” says Linda Wright, director of food research and discovery at the Hershey Company.
by Leigh Krietsch Boerner | April 29, 2021
Entries in the Peeps diorama contest honor moments in science using the popular bunny- and chick-shaped marshmallows. Given the IYPT anniversary this year, we decided to create a periodic table–themed display. We chose to depict the moment when Dmitri Mendeleev supposedly dreamed of the periodic table and then woke up and wrote it down.
by Bibiana Campos Seijo | May 05, 2019
That’s right: Peeps, those sugar-coated, pastel-colored, awww-inducing marshmallow bunnies and chicks found ubiquitously in the US in the weeks leading up to Easter. The science-themed diorama contest, which lets you share science and satisfy your sweet tooth, is sponsored by the Open Notebook, a nonprofit online magazine for science journalists.
by Linda Wang | January 20, 2019
More than 400 children engaged in hands-on activities, including making “boo” bubbles, making UV-reactive beaded bracelets, placing marshmallows in a vacuum, and splitting water. Student affiliates from the Central Wisconsin Section hosted an ACS Program-in-a-Box event at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point.
by Linda Wang | December 16, 2018
But I have a hard time imagining things I can’t see, so for this exercise, imagine a cubic crystal made of marshmallows and toothpicks. Just a giant cube made out of smaller cubes with a marshmallow at each vertex, connected by toothpicks. The marshmallows, then, put the metal in MOF. And the toothpicks are the organic part. In MOF language, the marshmallows would be the anchors or secondary building units, the toothpicks are the organic struts. In MOF-5, the anchors are octahedral zinc oxide clusters. And the struts are 1,4-benzodicarboxylic acid, which is basically a benzene ring with two stubby arms on either side to grab onto zinc oxide anchors.
by Matt Davenport | February 28, 2018
The fact that the car in the sepia micrograph on his computer screen looks more like a toasted marshmallow than a Maserati doesn’t help, either. But Masson, a supramolecular chemist at Ohio University, patiently explains that the lumpy, cream-colored rectangle he’s pointing to in the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) image is an assembly of atoms that scientists can drive across a surface.
by Matt Davenport | May 02, 2017
Volunteers presented four hands-on activities, including making molecular models with marshmallows. The local section also held a Science Saturday event, which included more than 40 hands-on activities related to mysteries. The Greater Houston Section hosted hands-on activities at the Children’s Museum of Houston for about 300 kids.
by Linda Wang | December 05, 2016
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by Melody M. Bomgardner | June 29, 2015