Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "When poured in, they said, spheres occupy about 64 percent of the space in a container. M&Ms manage to pack in at a density of about 68 percent.
'We just stretched a sphere and suddenly things changed dramatically,' said Torquato. 'To me, it's remarkable that you can take this simple system with common candies and probe one of the deepest problems in condensed matter physics.'"