Chemists at UCL and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have demonstrated how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have ...

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

The “egg drop challenge” is a rite of passage in science classrooms ... Environmental Engineering carries out an egg-dropping experiment with students. It’s simple but effective.

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“The fun started when we thought we would get one result and then we saw another,” said Hudson Borja da Rocha with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who helped run the experiments. The ...

Eggs are less likely to crack when they fall on their side, according to experiments with over 200 eggs. What does this mean for the best way to crack an egg for breakfast? Not much, since a break ...

New research shows eggs are less likely to crack when they land on their side than on their end. According to research published in Communications Physics, a trial simulating the classroom science ...

Its Hydropol polymer material is a plastic that can fully dissolve in water. “It’s like sugar in tea,” CEO Mark Lapping tells me. All plastics are polymers, repeating chains of petroleum ...

and 2 teaspoons of salt. The researchers, who used an arbitrary 10-to-1 ratio of water to pasta in their experiments, also said that reducing that volume of water by two-thirds generally ...

Science classrooms across the globe have been pedalling a lie for decades, maybe even centuries. Eggs are not stronger when dropped on their ends. So say researchers from MIT, who claim that eggs ...

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