THE great advances made during the past few years in the science of illumination have rendered it desirable, or rather absolutely necessary, that experiments should be undertaken with a view to the ...

It took seven decades, but the pitch has finally been caught in the act. Since 1944, physicists at Trinity College in Dublin have been trying to measure the viscosity of pitch tar, a polymer seemingly ...

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 ...