Deep in Harvard Forest in central Massachusetts, researchers have been running a controlled warming experiment for 37 years.

The simple experiment setup. Image via Wiki Commons. In 1927, physicist Thomas Parnell poured hot pitch into a funnel at the ...

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In a quiet corner of a physics building in Australia, a glass funnel filled with a tar-like substance has been dripping so slowly that only nine drops have ever fallen. As it approaches its centenary, ...

(via SciShow) Most science experiments take a few months or years, but some take a whole lot longer. Here are six of the longest-running experiments of all time, including one expected to last 500 ...

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 ...