Sometimes science can be painfully slow. Data comes in dribs and drabs, truth trickles, and veracity proves viscous. The world's longest-running lab experiment is an ongoing work in sheer scientific ...

At the University of Queensland, there is a display containing the longest-running laboratory experiment in the world. It's ...

An experiment started in 1927 by Thomas Parnell aimed to prove pitch is a super-viscous fluid. Over 96 years, only nine drops have fallen from the funnel, with scientists waiting decades to witness ...

A century-old thought experiment on wave–particle duality is brought into the laboratory using a single trapped atom ...

Over 40 years, experimenters watched as hundreds of Black Americans went blind, suffered from organ failure, and died of a treatable disease.