A Watched Spaghetti Still Curls: Why the Pasta Won't Lie Flat

Ah, spaghetti. There's just something about the loveable dish that's captured popular attention for decades, from the BBC's spaghetti tree hoax to that famous kiss scene in Lady and the Tramp. But it's also kept researchers busy with projects like feeding pasta through an MRI machine to see how it cooks, explaining why you just can't keep sauce from covering your shirt, and building the ultimate spaghetti-snapping machine.Third-year graduate student Nathaniel Goldberg is one of the latest resear...