Just think what you could do with duct tape

[ksmith]

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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Comments

[daveamongus.livejournal.com]

Wow.

That's pretty awesome.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I can see it now, a new way to reduce healthcare costs--at-home x-rays!

[barbarienne.livejournal.com]

I give it three weeks before "Scotch tape may be killing you!" makes it into the Wackadoodle News.

This is very cool. They should check out the sealing glue for Curad bandages next. I used to see a line of static electricity (glowy blue!) when I peeled those packages open.