Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. pitch drop lab experiment Sometimes science can be painfully slow. Data comes in dribs and drabs, truth trickles, and veracity ...

The science world might have tapped into something that is literally slower than molasses. Researchers at Ireland's Trinity College set up a camera to capture a pitch drop that was 69 years in the ...

The Pitch Drop Experiment, begun in 1927, demonstrates that pitch is a liquid so viscous it takes decades for a single drop to fall, yet no one has ever witnessed it directly.

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 ...