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When you twist open an Oreo cookie to get to the creamy center, you’re mimicking a standard test in rheology the study of how a non-Newtonian material flows when twisted, pressed, or otherwise stressed. MIT engineers have now subjected the sandwich
MIT engineers subjected Oreo cookies to rigorous materials tests to get to the center of a tantalizing question: Why does the cookie’s cream stick to just one wafer when twisted apart?