Mystery Unravelled: Why headphones can form 120 ‘complex knots’ while in your pocket

Confirming what music fans have thought since they got their first Walkman, it takes just seconds for headphones to tangle inside a bag or pocket. Using computer simulations, a team of physicists have unravelled exactly why the wires get so tangled, so quickly – and it’s all to do with coils. When shaken up, the […]

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