X-Rays come from the darnedest places

So you can make anything – including an X-Ray machine with 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.

It has to be in a vacuum, but still…    

 

Totally cool, and it’s not April 1st, so it might even be true.

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