Why the Big Nuts End Up on Top

Shake a mixed can of nuts and, without fail, the biggest ones migrate to the surface — a granular physics quirk named after the exact snack that made…

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Named after the exact snack that made people notice, which is a rare case of physics with a genuinely good name.

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