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

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

Running for nearly a century, this quiet experiment proves a “solid” can flow, drop by drop, while generations of scientists ...

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.

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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 ...