Scotch tape screeches because it's making tiny sonic booms

Unwind a roll of Scotch tape inside a vacuum and it gives off X-rays — enough to capture a fuzzy image of a lab member's finger. UCLA physicists demonstrated this in 2008, vindicating a claim Soviet scientists had made (to widespread disbelief) back in 1953. — Read the rest The post Scotch tape screeches because it's making tiny sonic booms appeared first on Boing Boing.