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 ...

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!

“Oh yes, watching paint dry would be far, far more interesting,” says Andrew White, a quantum physicist at Australia’s University of Queensland and custodian of the world’s longest continually run — ...

Professor Thomas Parnell was 46 years old when he created the Pitch Drop Experiment in 1927 for his physics undergraduates to explore the complexities of tar pitch, a substance often used to seal the ...

The pitch-drop experiment broke its 69-year silence as Dublin scientists captured the elusive drop on film for the first time! The drip has dropped! (Or has the drop dripped?) Either way, the curse of ...

What's the world's most boring science experiment? You could make a pretty good case for the "pitch drop" experiment. It consists of a glass funnel filled with pitch, which drips oh-so-slowly to ...