Call it the Ikea of Italian cuisine. Where the trendy mid-century coffee table or cube shelf for records from an Ikea flatpack is a rite of passage for many 20-somethings, material scientists have ...

Oodles of noodles: Real-life grooved pasta (white) and model simulations (orange) shown before and after cooking. (Courtesy: Morphing Matter Lab/Carnegie Mellon University) Flat sheets of fresh and ...

When you go to the grocery store and buy pasta today, you buy large packages or boxes of pasta that starts in the shape you end up eating. However, in the future, the pasta you buy in the store may be ...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have made “morphing” pasta that’s able to be flat-packed like IKEA furniture, but still retain its shape when boiled. When you think of IKEA and food, you probably think ...

When it comes to food packaging, there’s no bigger scam than potato chip bags, right? People complain about the air (nitrogen, actually) inside, but it’s there for a reason — nitrogen pushes out ...

Pasta comes in many shapes and sizes, which is part of its inherent delight. But all those irregular shapes tend to be inefficient when it comes to packaging. So what if you could buy your pasta of ...

Sometimes you want rigatoni. Sometimes you want orecchiette. Well now you can have both-- at the same time. Researchers at MIT have developed a prototype flat pasta that changes shape when submerged ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Panzani pastas on sell as loose products in the grocery area of a supermarket in Paris (AFP via Getty Images) An interdisciplinary ...

There are over 350 types of pasta that have been created all over the world to suit different traditions and cooking needs. Specific shapes hold certain sauces better than others; if you are craving a ...

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