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

As part of a school science project, Lincoln's fifth-grade students designed and built egg-drop devices to simulate a Mars space-landing mission using various materials, including cardboard boxes ...

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The classic egg drop science experiment has gotten a big update, thanks to a new study. Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology studied the best way to drop a chicken egg to ...

The egg drop challenge is a common fixture in STEM classes. Students are tasked with designing a cushion around an egg that prevents it from cracking when dropped from a height. Conventional ...

In research out today, scientists have apparently figured out the safest way to drop an egg without it breaking. Researchers at MIT conducted the study, published Thursday in Communications Physics.