@article {156161,
	title = {Packing in the spheres},
	journal = {Science},
	volume = {303},
	number = {5660},
	year = {2004},
	pages = {968-969},
	abstract = {
	To study how objects pack together, physicists have long assumed that the objects are spherical. But this simplifying approximation may be leading researchers astray. As Weitz\&nbsp;discusses in his Perspective, the work reported by Doney et al.\&nbsp;in the same issue shows that how spheres pack may be the exception rather than the rule. Through a combination of experiments with a large collection of ellipsoidal candies and computer simulations, the researchers discover that a much higher volume can be filled with the ellipsoids than with spheres. Not just a theoretical puzzle, the ways in which objects pack are of vital concern to the shipping and manufacturing industries.

},
	url = {https://science.sciencemag.org/content/303/5660/968.summary},
	author = {Weitz, D. A.}
}
