An egg might look delicate, but its shell is a marvel of natural engineering. For centuries, people believed that its ...

New experiments show eggs are less likely to crack when they fall on their side. It’s commonly thought that eggs are ...

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

Turns out eggs are less likely to crack when they fall on their side, according to experiments with around 200 eggs.

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

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 ...

The incredible, edible egg is also breakable, but at what height? Heidi Skinner has some questions about a Massachusetts ...

Instead of tapping your eggs in the middle to crack them — the go-to method for most home cooks — the MIT researchers say you’re better off targeting the top or bottom, where the shell is ...

“Cracking an egg for cooking involves applying locally focused force for a clean break to retrieve the yolk, while its resistance to breaking from a drop involves distributing and absorbing energy ...

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 ...

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 ...