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 ...

U.S. higher education institutions face ongoing criticism by journalists, policymakers, scholars, families, and students for inadequately supporting socioeconomic mobility. (I too have contributed to ...

A "chicken and egg" conundrum is plaguing credit markets. While banks that get federal bailout money are faulted for not using the funds to make loans to kickstart the economy, hamstrung corporations ...

It’s one of the oldest questions in science: which came first, the chicken or the egg? For centuries, it’s been a philosophical riddle as much as a biological one. But researchers now say they’ve ...

The age-old question of the chicken or the egg is explored through evolutionary biology. Eggs, as membrane-bound containers for embryo development, predate chickens by millions of years. However, the ...