Egg drop competitions are a staple of high school and college physics classes. The goal is for students to build a device using bubble wrap, straws, or various other materials designed to hold an ...

Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology studied the best way to drop a chicken egg to prevent it from cracking – vertically, or on the side. Now, we may finally have an answer.

Others, however, take the egg drop experiment more seriously. Hence the study published in Communications Physics on 8 May – although we note it was accepted on 1 April, which seems telling.

The egg drop contest was one of my favorite units to teach when I was a middle school science teacher. Then the 7th grade science teacher stole it!

Others, however, take the egg drop experiment more seriously. Advertisement. Hence the study published in Communications Physics on 8 May – although we note it was accepted on 1 April, ...

A few eggs from the egg drop experiment in front of the Great Dome at MIT. Eggs are less likely to crack when dropped on their side than when dropped vertically, a new study suggests.

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