Pasta made and shipped flat also may reduce carbon emissions. This is an Inside Science story. Pasta is beloved for its diversity of shapes, from tubes of penne to spirals of fusilli. However, these ...

Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have taken inspiration from flat-packed furniture to reimagine the way pasta is created, developing a flat form of the food that morphs into conventional ...

People love pasta for its shapes -- from tubes of penne and rigatoni to spirals of fusilli and rotini. But what makes farfalle different from conchiglie also makes the staple a bear to package, ...

Researchers created a new pasta shaping technique that allowed this noodle to transform from a straight to curlicue after seven minutes in boiling water. Morphing Matter Lab. Carnegie Mellon ...

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 ...