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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you think of IKEA and food, you probably think meatballs. But now, thanks to researchers at Carnegie Mellon, you may also ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Food manufacturers can be more efficient in packaging their products. According to a recent study conducted by Forbes Insight, and commissioned by display manufacturer DS Smith, 25% of what companies ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...