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Jumpy eggs caught on camera

Give it a good spin and a hard-boiled egg will start leaping.

After two years of work, with a purpose-built steel machine wired up to high-speed cameras, microphones and electronic sensors, a team of Japanese researchers has finally proved that a hard-boiled egg can jump1. All it takes, according to Yutaka Shimomura and colleagues of Keio University, is a good spin.

Read the story here.

Posted by Nicola Jones on April 12, 2006 12:01 AM |

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I Recommend this research for Ig Nobel prize. The most useless and absurd article i have came across at nature's website.

Posted by: nilesh | April 12, 2006 12:37 PM

And someone was paying for this research??? How can I get in on a scam like this??!!!

Posted by: johcar | April 13, 2006 07:37 AM

Have you seen this before? It's a number guessing game: http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/guessthenumber.html. I guessed 26256, and it got it right! Pretty neat.

Posted by: Merideth Carleton | May 17, 2006 01:26 AM

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