Stay-at-home science project: Use fire to push an egg into a bottle
Without fire, this is just an egg on a bottle. The fun starts when you add matches. (John Kennedy/)Welcome to PopSci’s at-home science projects series. On weekdays at noon, we’ll be posting new projects that use ingredients you can buy at the grocery store. Show us how it went by tagging your project on social media using #popsciprojects.If you like fire and you like eggs, this is the project for you. Simply put, we’re going to toss a few lit matches into an empty glass bottle, plug the top with a peeled hard-boiled egg, and watch mayhem unfold. When you’re done, all (or at least some) of the egg will be in the bottle, thanks to the power of the Earth’s atmosphere.This experiment clocks in at around half an hour, but you’ll spend most of that time preparing the eggs. The actual egg-bottling lasts less than five minutes. So if...