Only scientists could make a blob of bitumen sound interesting. And don’t knock this world record-breaking achievement until you have watched the video. Scientists at Trinity College Dublin have made ...

Thousands of people are logging on to see scientific history being made, as the world's longest running lab experiment reaches an exciting climax. A live video stream will at last allow the world to ...

Physicists at Queen Mary University of London have set up a new pitch drop experiment for students to explore the difference between solid and liquids. Known as the 'world's longest experiment', the ...

86 years ago, the University of Queensland in Australia began conducting an experiment in which the flow rate of a piece of pitch was measured. For those of you who may not know what pitch is, it's a ...

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 ...

A clever tweak is letting students “cheat” at one of the world’s longest running experiments. Although pitch – or bitumen – seems solid at room temperature, it flows like a liquid given enough time.

Known as the ‘world’s longest experiment’, the set up at the University of Queensland was famous for taking ten years for a drop of pitch – a thick, black, sticky material – to fall from a funnel.