Pitch drop was an experiment to drip a highly viscous liquid compound called pitch, in 1927 by Professor Thomas Parnell of the University of Queensland. The pitch which crumbles into pieces when hit ...

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 ...

It may have taken 69 years but one of the longest-running experiments in the world has captured the fall of a drop of tar pitch on camera for the first time ever. The experiment began in 1944 at ...

The Pitch Drop experiment started in 1927 at the University of Queensland, remains one of the most engaging examples of long-term research and fascinating behaviours of mundane materials. This ...

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 ...

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 ...

A scientific experiment first set up in 1944 has been caught on film for the first time ever. After decades of waiting, the Pitch-Tar Drop at Trinity College Dublin has finally been witnessed (albeit ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...