If you’ve ever worked in a cubicle surrounded by frosted glass partitions, you may’ve seen this trick before – but for those of you who haven’t, come in and let us surprise you with this magic trick.
Whether it’s holding together your glasses, the TV remote or your grandmother’s birthday present, Scotch tape has been one of the constants in our lives since before we can remember. Today, lift your beer for its 80th birthday.
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 tape generates is much higher than anyone could have imagined. In fact, they have constructed a machine that generates x-rays by peeling up Scotch tape in a vacuum at the rate of 3 centimeters per second. As you can see in the recent demo they did for the journal Nature, their device was able to successfully generate an x-ray of a finger.
