"The universal convention is that the egg should be in a vertical orientation when it hits the ground," Cohen told Physics ...

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But around three years ago, Tal Cohen started to doubt that. Cohen, a mechanical and civil engineering professor at MIT, conducted a new study that turns the assumption on its head — or rather ...

Tal Cohen, an MIT associate professor, and her colleagues conducted a series of 180 drop tests to compare how chicken eggs break when orientated vertically or side-on. After dropping 60 eggs from ...

One of the MIT team's eggs, seen here cracking from a compression test. © Tal Cohen et al/Communication Physics Here’s hoping Humpty Dumpty reads the news. In ...