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

If this sounds familiar, it is because it builds on the egg drop project from the Teaching Channel we talked about before. The materials for that lesson have the basic outline of the drop stand ...

PALM BAY, FL (May 6, 2014) – Space Florida, the state’s spaceport authority and aerospace development organization, is pleased to announce the winners of the 5 th Annual Planetary Lander Egg ...

Material you will use around the egg. Design and build your lander. Attach the parachute. The landing site will be a 3. 1 × 1 ft target. From the top of a ladder over the target. 4. Drop your lander.

The egg drop challenge is a common fixture in STEM ... But they proved that’s not the case,” says Marc Meyers, a materials scientist at the University of California, San Diego, who was not ...

One of the MIT team's eggs, seen here cracking from a compression test. © Tal Cohen et al/Communication Physics Here’s hoping Humpty Dumpty reads the news. In ...