One of nature's most efficient life-support systems is the egg. Eggs evolved over 300 million years ago as vertebrate animals adapted to living on land. And since then, they've taken on numerous ...

The shape of the universe has been puzzling scientists for decades, and some new theories suggest it might not be the flat or spherical shape we’ve assumed, but something far more egg-like. While ...

Mary Caswell Stoddard, an assistant professor in Princeton’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, proposes a far-ranging hypothesis regarding how and why bird eggs acquire their shapes. Her ...