A science experiment 69 years in the making has finally come to a conclusion at Dublin’s Trinity College. Though this may seem like small potatoes compared to the 421-year-old university, scientists ...

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 ...

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 ...

The world’s longest-running experiment has just had a 'breakthrough', after its ninth droplet of tar slowly gave in to gravity. The droplet was captured by the University of Queensland’s live webcam, ...