Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. pitch drop lab experiment Sometimes science can be painfully slow. Data comes in dribs and drabs, truth trickles, and veracity ...

100 Years, Nine Drops, Zero Eyewitnesses: Inside the World’s Longest-Running Lab Experiment (Image: University of Queensland) The Pitch Drop Experiment, begun in 1927 at Australia’s University of ...

What if a material that looks solid could actually flow… over nearly a century? Launched in 1927 by an Australian professor to illustrate viscosity, an experiment of disarming simplicity has become a ...

In a quiet corner of a physics building in Australia, a glass funnel filled with a tar-like substance has been dripping so slowly that only nine drops have ever fallen. As it approaches its centenary, ...