Just think what you could do with duct tape

Just two weeks after a Nobel Prize highlighted theoretical work on subatomic particles, physicists are announcing a startling discovery about a much more familiar form of matter: Scotch tape. It turns out that if you peel the popular adhesive tape off its roll in a vacuum chamber, it emits X-rays. The researchers even made an X-ray image of one of their fingers.

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Just think what you could do with duct tape

Just two weeks after a Nobel Prize highlighted theoretical work on subatomic particles, physicists are announcing a startling discovery about a much more familiar form of matter: Scotch tape. It turns out that if you peel the popular adhesive tape off its roll in a vacuum chamber, it emits X-rays. The researchers even made an X-ray image of one of their fingers.

Rest of the story here.

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I just watched Chrissie Hynde and the Pretenders on Dave Letterman.

Hynde is 57 years old, and looks great in skintight jeans, and still wears her hair in bangs that hang in her eyes.

I want to be Chrissie Hynde when I grow up. Except I'm only 7 years behind her, so I better grow up fast.

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I just watched Chrissie Hynde and the Pretenders on Dave Letterman.

Hynde is 57 years old, and looks great in skintight jeans, and still wears her hair in bangs that hang in her eyes.

I want to be Chrissie Hynde when I grow up. Except I'm only 7 years behind her, so I better grow up fast.