The version I remember best comes from West Virginia, where my grandmother — daughter of a coal miner, master of the frugal ...

When you see pasta, your brain probably doesn't jump to the secrets of the universe. But for almost a century, physicists have puzzled over spaghetti's counterintuitive properties.

The effect is thanks to the physical properties of the pasta - you can bend it a lot before it ultimately snaps. So when it does snap, there's a lot of stress within the spaghetti as it springs ...

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The version I remember best comes from West Virginia, where my grandmother — daughter of a coal miner, master of the frugal feast — made hers with snapped spaghetti, ground chuck and a generou ...