10 Scientific Reasons To Eat More Pizza

Believe it or not, physicists are using the fine art of pizza tossing to design motors thinner than a human hair for brain surgery.

Chefs have perfected the toss of the dough, moving their hands in a circle to achieve maximum efficiency. Scientists studied their movements to design motors mimicking those circles. Except instead of tossing a rotor once a second, the motors toss them a few million times a second.

NASA is funding a 3D food printer, and the lucky recipient of the grant's first choice: pizza. A meal fit for an astronaut!

Norovirus, or what we often refer to as a stomach bug, is the leading cause of camping out in bathrooms in the U.S. Scientists found that carvacrol, found in oregano oil, can break down the virus.

While no amount of pizza can prevent norovirus (Price Is Right trombone here), scientists are looking into harnessing carvacrol’s power for use as a sanitizer. (The concentrated version of it is intolerable, so don’t even consider it.)

Carvacrol can also hack into prostate-cancer cells and reprogram them to kill themselves off, which potentially can be used to help treat prostate cancer.

Well, only if you're spending it in the first place. An intrepid pizza fan at NPR's Planet Money plotted over 70,000 pizza prices and found you should always order the larger pizza.

Why? Reach into your cobwebbed math knowledge: The area of a circle increases with the square of the radius, so a 16-inch pizza is four times as big as an 8-inch one!