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Move over, angel hair <keyword id="54935" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="pasta" source="Orion">pasta</keyword> — there’s a new contender in town. Researchers have created the <keyword id="24099848" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="thinnest-spaghetti" source="keywords">thinnest spaghetti</keyword> ever, measuring just 372 nanometers across. That’s roughly 200 times thinner than a human hair! But this isn’t a culinary breakthrough — it’s a scientific one. This “nanopasta” holds promise for revolutionary applications in medicine and industry. <h2 style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:4pt;">A spaghetti revolution in the lab</h2>The spaghetti was made using electrospinning, a technique where an electric charge pulls a flour-based mixture through a needle to form nanofibers.: “To make spaghetti, you push a mixture of water and flour through metal holes,” explained co-author Dr. Adam Clancy. “In our study, we did the same except we pulled our flour mixture through with an electrical charge. It’s literally spaghetti but much smaller.” The strands are so fine they can’t be seen clearly with visible light and had to be measured using a scanning electron microscope. For comparison, the next thinnest known pasta is su filindeu — the “threads of God” from Sardinia — estimated to be about 400 microns wide. That makes this new creation 1,000 times thinner. <h2 style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:4pt;">Why make nanospaghetti?</h2>This isn’t pasta for your plate — it’s nanofiber science at its finest. Nanofibers are ultra-thin strands of material with many uses, such as wound healing. Nanofiber mats are highly porous, allowing water and moisture in while keeping bacteria out. They can also help with bone regeneration by acting as scaffolding for tissue growth, or for drug delivery, since their microscopic size allows for precise medical applications. “Nanofibers, such as those made of starch, show potential for use in wound dressings as they are very porous,” remarked co-author Professor Gareth Williams. “In addition, nanofibers are being explored for use as a scaffold to regrow tissue, as they mimic the extracellular matrix — a network of proteins and other molecules that cells build to support themselves.” Making nanofibers traditionally involves extracting and purifying starch, a resource-intensive process. The team found a greener solution by starting with flour, which is rich in starch. Dr. Clancy said: “Starch is a promising material to use as it is abundant and renewable — it is the second largest source of biomass on Earth, behind cellulose — and it is biodegradable, meaning it can be broken down in the body.” Using flour, however, wasn’t without its challenges. Impurities like proteins and cellulose made the mixture more viscous and harder to spin into fibers. To tackle this, the researchers used formic acid instead of water, as it breaks down the starch’s tightly packed helical structures. The acid evaporated during the process, leaving behind ultrathin strands of nanospaghetti. <h2 style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:4pt;">Not for your dinner table</h2>While this innovation is exciting, don’t expect it to replace your fettuccine anytime soon. Professor Williams points out that the nanospaghetti isn’t really as useful as pasta, sadly, as it would overcook in less than a second, before you could take it out of the pan. Instead, the team is focusing on the practical uses of nanospaghetti in fields like healthcare. Dr. Clancy added: “We’ve shown that a simpler way to make nanofibers using flour is possible. The next step would be to investigate the properties of this product. We would want to know, for instance, how quickly it disintegrates, how it interacts with cells, and if you could produce it at scale.” For now, this world-record-breaking spaghetti is a testament to the possibilities of nanotechnology. Whether it’s revolutionizing medicine or creating <keyword id="22184424" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="eco-friendly-materials" source="keywords">eco-friendly materials</keyword>, this tiny pasta proves that big things can come in very small packages The findings of this study have been published in Nanoscale Advances and can be accessed <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/D4NA00601A">here</a>.

Scientists have created the world’s thinnest spaghetti 200 times thinner than hair that overcooks in a second! Here’s why

World renowned neuroscientist Sebastian Seung&#xa0;has dedicated countless hours to researching the brain. 
But it's an online game Seung helped develop, called <a href="http://eyewire.org/">EyeWire</a>,&#xa0;that&#xa0;could provide a breakthrough way to map the organ.
The game is similar to similar to <a href="http://fold.it/portal/">Foldit</a>, an online puzzle game about protein folding.
Instead of a single scientist painstakingly tracing neural pathways, a task the&#xa0;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/magazine/sebastian-seungs-quest-to-map-the-human-brain.html?_r=0">New York Times</a>&#xa0;describes as "akin to tracing the full length of every strand of pasta in a bowl of spaghetti and meatballs using pens and thousands of blurry black-and-white photos," EyeWire transforms the task into a fun interactive challenge.
Players in EyeWire are challenged to map branches of a neuron from one side of a cube to the other.
The game is a type of 3D puzzle: As players scroll through a cube, they reconstruct neurons in volumetric segments with the help of an artificial intelligence algorithm, the <a href="http://eyewire.org/">EyeWire</a> website explains.
The game has already attracted over 160,000 players in 145 countries.&#xa0;Players do not need a scientific background to play EyeWire.
The game has attracted a wide age range: Lorinda, a Missouri grandmother who also paints watercolors plays the game regularly, and Iliyan, a high-school student in Bulgaria, once played EyeWire for nearly 24 hours straight, The New York Times reports.

Eventually, Seung anticipates human players may be replaced or supplemented by artificial intelligence. But in the meantime, he is actively recruiting more human players.
Korea Telecom, South Korea's largest telecom company, announced a partnership with EyeWire this summer and has promoted the game with a nationwide ad campaign.
Seung is also hoping to incorporate a storyline and characters into his basic puzzle game.
"Think of what we could do if we could capture even a small fraction of the mental effort that goes into Angry Birds,"&#xa0;he said.

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