After 69 years, the pitch has finally dropped. Researchers at Trinity College who have been conducting one version of the most famous long-term experiment in the world—dubbed the pitch drop experiment ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. To view the experiment that the University of Queensland's School of Maths and Physics ...

The University of Queensland in Australia hosts the world's longest-running science experiment. The experiment began in 1927. It observes the flow of pitch, a substance that seems solid but is a very ...

It took seven decades, but the pitch has finally been caught in the act. Since 1944, physicists at Trinity College in Dublin have been trying to measure the viscosity of pitch tar, a polymer seemingly ...

It is designed to show that the brittle pitch is in fact, a liquid. Progress is so slow that now, 86 years later, only the ninth drop is forming No-one has witnessed the drop including the scientist ...

Professor John Mainstone (third left), the former head of the Department of Physics at the University of Queensland, with students examining the world's longest running laboratory test, the Pitch Drop ...

For more than 85 years, the University of Queensland in Australia has been running an experiment to work out the viscosity of pitch (a derivative of tar). The study, which began in 1927 and is thought ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The world's longest-running laboratory experiment has finally delivered a result – eight months after the man who patiently watched over ...

Researchers at Trinity College Dublin have some long awaited test results: After 69 years, they have captured on video a drop of pitch, also known as bitumen or asphalt. With a camera trained on a ...

Science lovers are aflutter today over the above video, which may not look like much—OK, definitely doesn’t look like much—until I tell you some people have been waiting for the better part of a ...