An egg might look delicate, but its shell is a marvel of natural engineering. For centuries, people believed that its strongest orientation was standing upright on its end. The idea seems to make ...

Turns out, laying eggs on their side — not storing them upright — is the best way to keep them from cracking, according to MIT researchers. A new study, published Thursday in the journal ...

Possibly the most common science experiment from our school days – the egg drop challenge – now has found a place in the ...

Experiments challenge the commonly held idea that dropping an egg vertically will help prevent it from cracking in a classic school assignment ...

As egg prices rise, the Usual Progressive Suspects claim it is due to monopoly power by egg producers, calling for government ...

Eggs are less likely to crack when dropped on their side than when dropped vertically, finds research published in ...

If researchers detected a fracture in the shell, the egg was classified as cracked. Overall, they found a 'statistically significant decrease' in the likelihood that an egg breaks when oriented ...

After months of record-high prices that have left retailers and businesses scrambling, the cost of eggs in the U.S. has finally dropped — relatively speaking.

It might sound like common sense – and it's echoed by science communicators and even ChatGPT – but it's wrong. New research ...

A new MIT study reveals that eggs are less likely to crack when dropped on their side, challenging the long-held belief that ...

Eggs are less likely to crack when dropped on their side than when dropped vertically, finds research published in Communications Physics. Controlled trials simulating the ‘egg drop challenge’, a ...

Eggs are less likely to crack when dropped on their side than when dropped vertically, finds research published in ...