女生小视频s have optimised pistachio storage Milovan Radmanovac/Alamy
Shelling your favourite snack nuts just got a lot easier: physicists have worked out the exact size of bowl to best fit discarded pistachio shells.
and at 脡cole Polytechnique in Paris often find themselves discussing science in the cafeteria while eating pistachios. Naturally, they began wondering about the mathematics behind storing their snack refuse.
The researchers stuffed 613 pistachios into a cylindrical container to determine 鈥減acking density鈥, or the fraction of space taken up by whole nuts…
Article amended on 15 July 2024
We clarified the modelling methods used in the study
