Eggshells are a marvel of nature; they can resist breakage by outside forces, yet will easily crack open from the inside as a chick hatches. Scientists at McGill University have learned that the trick ...

The expression and impact of maternal effects may vary greatly between populations and environments. However, little is known about large-scale geographical patterns of variation in maternal ...

With Easter Sunday just days away, children across the country will be on the hunt for eggs—chocolate and chicken. Researchers, on the other hand, have been hunting for the secrets behind eggshells.

Imaging of chicken eggshell across multiple length scales. Electron microscopy with 3D-tomographic imaging, and atomic force microscopy, reveal interior shell nanostructure. This material relates to a ...

A chicken eggshell has a tricky job: It must protect a developing chick, but then ultimately let the chick break free. The secret to its success lies in its complex nanostructure — and how that ...

Cutting of a thin section of chicken eggshell using a focused-ion beam to image interior nanostructure by electron microscopy. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 30 March 2018, ...