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

It’s a bit counterintuitive that the oblong side of an egg could hold up better against a tumble, said study co-author Tal Cohen with Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Countless broken eggs ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 and 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 each of three different heights ...

It's a bit counterintuitive that the oblong side of an egg could hold up better against a tumble, said study co-author Tal Cohen with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Countless broken ...