Scientists create spaghetti so small, it can’t be seen with the naked

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Imagine, if you will, a strand of spaghetti 200 times thinner than a human hair. This tiny piece of pasta is so small, roughly 372 nanometers, it’s actually smaller than some wavelengths of light, and certainly way smaller than anything you can see with the naked eye.

It’s so small, you could eat a pile of it and still be able to say you didn’t cheat on your keto diet.

That’s what scientists at UCL did: they made world’s tiniest spaghetti. And they made it by pressing flour and water through nanoscopic holes in a piece of metal.

Unfortunately, the tiny pasta is pretty worthless in the culinary world even though they used store-bought flour to make it.

Study co-author, Professor Gareth Williams, said,

I don’t think it’s useful as pasta, sadly, as it would overcook in less than a second, before you could take it out of the pan.

So, what can you use tiny pasta for?

Nanofibers, such as those made of starch, show potential for use in wound dressings as they are very porous. 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.

The future is going to be an interesting place. Just imagine your ER visit ten years from now.