Sometimes science can be painfully slow. Data comes in dribs and drabs, truth trickles, and veracity proves viscous. The ...

At the University of Queensland, there is a display containing the longest-running laboratory experiment in the world. It's ...

The experiment began in 1927 at the University of Queensland in Australia, when physicist Thomas Parnell set out to prove a simple point: materials that appear solid can, in fact, be fluids.

The science world might have tapped into something that is literally slower than molasses. Researchers at Ireland's Trinity College set up a camera to capture a pitch drop that was 69 years in the ...

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Sticky challenge One of the 37 pitch-drop experiments sent by Trinity College Dublin’s School of Physics to secondary schools all over Ireland. (Courtesy: Karl Gaff, TCD School of Physics) Nothing is ...

In 1927, a researcher at the University of Queensland in Australia began what's widely recognized as the longest-running experiment ever, the so-called "pitch drop." It's a simple set up: fill a flask ...

In a quiet corner of a physics building in Australia, a glass funnel filled with a tar-like substance has been dripping so ...