More than 50 years ago, Russian scientists discovered that simple Scotch tape emits x-rays when peeled off glass. New research conducted by colleagues at UCLA has determined that the power that the ...

Discover how X-rays from sticky tape are generated, offering an inexpensive method for X-ray production in a vacuum machine. Peeling a roll of ordinary sticky tape can generate 100 milliwatt pulses of ...

Sometimes, the journal Nature shines a light on a strange, dust-mitey corner of science, and you find yourself staring at an unimaginably weird creature/experiment. In today’s issue, they dedicate ...

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 ...