The drip has dropped! (Or has the drop dripped?) Either way, the curse of the 69-year-old pitch-drop experiment has finally been broken: physicists at Trinity College in Dublin have finally caught the ...

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 ...

You guys. YOU GUYS. HOLY CRAP YOU GUYS IT FINALLY HAPPENED. After decades of observation, the climax of one of the longest running experiments in history has finally been captured on video. The pitch!

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 took 69 years, but at last we’ve seen the pitch drop. One of the world’s longest-running experiments climaxed last week, when a finger-sized bulb of pitch (bitumen) separated from its parent bulk ...

For more than 50 years, Professor John Mainstone has stared at a shiny dark blob dangling from a glass funnel hoping to see it drip. The substance—a form of pitch—hovers at the border of liquid and ...

The curator of what may be the world's longest running experiment, known as the pitch drop, passed away last week without ever getting to see the rare and exceedingly slow-moving drip he had waited ...