Here’s hoping Humpty Dumpty reads the news. In research out today, scientists have apparently figured out the safest way to ...

MIT research team proves pop science eggsplanation wrong It might sound like common sense – and it's echoed by science ...

Eggs are less likely to crack when they fall on their side, according to experiments with over 200 eggs. What does this mean ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...