Grass grows quicker. Paint dries faster. Yet there’s something irresistible about watching the glacial flow of pitch. And now a long-forgotten experiment with pitch has come to light, probably the ...
University of Queensland provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Something strange is happening within the world-famous pitch drop experiment with the latest drop forming much faster than ...
When physicists at Trinity College, Dublin, started a viscosity experiment in 1944, Franklin D. Roosevelt was president of the United States, World War II was well underway, and Meet Me in St. Louis ...
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 ...
The pitch has dropped – again. This time, the glimpse of a falling blob of tar, also called pitch, represents the first result for the world’s longest-running experiment. Sadly however, the glimpse ...
High school science teacher Sam Terfa wanted to demonstrate a fundamental physics principle: resonant frequency. To do so, he found the best singer at Minnehaha Academy and had him serenade a wine ...
In 1944, a colleague of Ernest Walton, the first person in history to successfully smash an atom, began an experiment of a decidedly larger and lengthier variety. In a physics lab at Trinity College, ...
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