At the University of Queensland, there is a display containing the longest-running laboratory experiment in the world. It's ...
Sometimes science can be painfully slow. Data comes in dribs and drabs, truth trickles, and veracity proves viscous. The ...
The experiment began in 1927 at the University of Queensland in Australia, when physicist Thomas Parnell set out to prove a simple point: materials that appear solid can, in fact, be fluids.
In a quiet corner of a physics building in Australia, a glass funnel filled with a tar-like substance has been dripping so ...