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 ...

Flat-pack pasta which only takes on its iconic shape after cooking has been created by scientists. A study found imprinting strips of raw pasta with grooves in a specific pattern allows them to be ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Barilla is celebrating Mikaela Shiffrin’s 87th World Cup victory with a pasta pack that features the brand’s iconic blue box pasta recipe made into 8 and 7 shapes. Barilla is celebrating Mikaela ...

According to calculations made by MIT's Tangible Media Group, even if dried macaroni pasta were to be packed in a box "perfectly," it would still be 67 percent air by volume. That's a lot of empty ...