Flat-pack furniture is commonplace, and flat-pack pasta might be one day too. Wen Wang of Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania and her colleagues have developed edible 2D pasta that swells into ...

You’ve probably bought a flat-packed sofa or bookcase from Ikea. Maybe you even live in a flat-packed tiny house. And you might soon also be eating flat-packed fusilli or macaroni. In a new study, ...

I wish someone—perhaps those with older kids—would have warned me about this stage of parenting. My once doe-eyed children who ate pretty much anything I'd cook and didn't have trouble with textures ...

When you think of IKEA and food, you probably think meatballs. But now, thanks to researchers at Carnegie Mellon, you may also think pasta, as the team’s created “morphing” versions of the wheat-water ...

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 ...

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 ...