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MIT researchers develop a shape-shifting pasta

June 7, 2017

Wen Wang

Former Research Scientist
Lining Yao

Former Research Assistant
Hiroshi Ishii

Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Associate Director, MIT Media Lab

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Researchers engineer shape-shifting noodles

Sheets of gelatin transform into 3-D shapes when dunked in water; could save food shipping costs.

Sheets of gelatin transform into 3D shapes when dunked in water; could save food shipping costs.

In 2013, bioengineer Wen Wang, then a research scientist at MIT, attended a talk on how Bacillus spores shrink in response to falling relat…

Ventilating flaps lined with live cells open and close in response to an athlete’s sweat.