This nuclear pasta forms in the dense crust of a neutron star thanks to long-range repulsive forces competing with something called the strong force, which is the force that binds quarks together. To understand this finding, we need to quickly dive into the weird world of nuclear matter, which researchers call 'nuclear pasta' because it looks a lot like spaghetti and lasagne. "Seeing very similar shapes in such strikingly different systems suggests that the energy of a system may depend on its shape in a simple and universal way," said one of the researchers, astrophysicist Charles Horowitz, from Indiana University, Bloomington. This could mean that, despite being fundamentally different, both humans and neutron stars are constrained by the same geometry. Researchers have found that the 'crust' (or outer layers) of a neutron star has the same shape as our cellular membranes. But, according to new research, we share at least one similarity: the geometry of the matter that makes us.
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