Spaghetti mangling

Take some dry spaghetti, and bend it till it breaks. How many pieces do you end up with? It's rarely two, and that's puzzled scientists for years. Now two French physicists say the answer is related to elastic waves travelling along the pasta when dry spaghetti is bent and suddenly released at one end. This might not sound like an important discovery, but the researchers think their findings can be applied to civil engineering to make structures like buildings and bridges more stable. Learn more at http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=17

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