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Here’s why spaghetti always breaks into three parts*

*sometimes, it breaks into two – but it’s usually three, as these students found out.

Jan 9th 2014, 5:56 PM 11,978 Views 20 Comments

WHY DOES SPAGHETTI always break into three parts?

That’s what students Saoirse O’Reilly (16) and Jade Manley (15) of Dominican College in Wicklow wanted to find out with their project for the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition.

Here’s what they discovered:

Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch=cuQOnM1JQO8&t=)

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Here’s why spaghetti always breaks into three parts*

*sometimes, it breaks into two – but it’s usually three, as these students found out.