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MIT engineering students crack egg dilemma, finding sideways is stronger
MIT engineering students overturned a longstanding belief and tenet of egg-drop classroom experiments around the world when they found eggs are stronger on their sides.
Their open-access findings, published today in Communications Physics, don’t just rewrite the rules of the classic egg drop challenge — they’re a lesson in intellectual humility and curiosity. This notion has long been a cornerstone of the classic “egg drop challenge,” a popular science activity in STEM classrooms across the country that introduces students to physics concepts of impact, force, kinetic energy, and engineering design. There are many such examples in the scientific literature, and it’s a real problem in some fields because it can be difficult to secure funding to challenge an existing, ‘well-known’ theory,” says David Taylor, emeritus professor in the Department of Mechanical, Manufacturing and Biomedical Engineering at Trinity College Dublin, who was not affiliated with the study.
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