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 ...

Many of us tackled the egg drop experiment in science class at some point in our childhood. But this former NASA engineer took it to a whole other level. The stratosphere, to be specific. And just ...

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.

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.

May 18—STERLING — It was an egg-cellent day for science at Sterling's Lincoln Elementary School on Friday, when students were seen tossing eggs — all as part of a fun, hands-on experiment.

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!

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