You've heard the age-old riddle: "Which came first: the chicken or the egg?" Taken metaphorically, it's a meditation on the futility of determining the cause of a self-perpetuating cycle. Taken ...

Researchers have developed a method for culturing fertilized chick eggs without their shells. The eggs were placed in an artificial culture vessel made of transparent film, allowing for real-time ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. These kinds of eggs are called amniotic eggs because of the way they keep the ...

Life will find a lay. Just weeks after archaeologists rolled out their latest discovery — who invented the wheel — scientists in Switzerland might’ve also finally cracked the age-old paradox. The hard ...

It's a question that has scrambled our brains for years. What came first, the chicken or the egg? Well, a team of scientists at the University of Bristol in England thinks it has cracked the code. One ...