World's Longest Running Science Experiment

Sometimes scientific discoveries happen quickly, and other times, it takes a while... a looooong while. Trace talks about the world's longest running laboratory experiment, and shows us some others that have been going on for longer than you've been alive!

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Long-term research: Slow science
http://www.nature.com/news/long-term-...
"The world's longest-running experiments remind us that science is a marathon, not a sprint."

World's. Slowest. Moving. Drop Drops on Camera
http://news.discovery.com/earth/world...
"An old experiment, dusty and shelved for much of its duration, finally let fall a drop of pitch, also known as bitumen or asphalt, in front of cameras for the first time."

Rothamsted Research's Classical Experiments
http://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/Content-S...
"Soon after John Lawes started his collaboration with Henry Gilbert, they began a series of field experiments to examine the effects of inorganic fertilisers and organic manures on the nutrition and yield of a number of important crops."

1800: The Sun's invisible radiation
http://www.hao.ucar.edu/education/Tim...
"In the 1660's Isaac Newton had shown that sunlight can be separated into separate chromatic components via refraction through a glass prism."

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