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Chemists have created the world's thinnest spaghetti

Researchers led by scientists from the University College London have done what celebrity chefs and Italian nonnas could only dream of: they've made the world's thinnest spaghetti.

This culinary-sounding accomplishment, published in Nanoscale Advances, has yielded strands of starch nanofibers that are just 372 nanometers wide, which is invisible to the naked eye and is even smaller than some wavelengths of light. Their version of the nanofibers were created with a process called electrospinning, where an electric charge pulls a flour and liquid mixture through extremely small metal holes into threads that are just nanometers wide. Starting today, every R1 user now has beta access to teach mode, a feature that allows you to train Rabbit’s LAM to automate tasks for you on any website you can visit from your computer.

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