Each new pasta design starts out flat and unassuming, but bounces and swells into three dimensions when boiled. In a paper published Wednesday in Science Advances, the researchers say the flat-to ...

While pasta that morphs into shape as it cooks might have a certain appeal as a novelty food item, the scientists behind it hope it can do much more than bring a bit of wow factor to the kitchen ...

And you might soon also be eating flat-packed fusilli or macaroni. In a new study, researchers designed pasta that could pop up from a basic fettucine-like shape into a spiral as it cooks ...

This pasta is no limp noodle. When imprinted with carefully designed arrangements of grooves, flat pasta morphs as it cooks, forming tubes, spirals and other shapes traditional for the starchy ...

According to the team's calculations, even if you pack macaroni pasta perfectly, you will still end up with as much as 67 percent of the volume being air. The ability to make flat pasta for ...