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Scientists crack the case of “screeching” Scotch tape

In 1953, Russian scientists peeling Scotch tape in a vacuum reported detecting electrons with sufficient energy to emit X-rays. Other […]

Femtosecond lasers etch data into a very stable medium. Right now, Silica hardware isn’t quite ready for commercialization. Credit: Microsoft […]

Sunlight can cause a molecule to change structure, and then release heat later. The system works a bit like existing […]

An elephant’s trunk is a marvelous thing, flexible enough to bend and stretch as it forages for food, but also […]

Graphene is the thinnest material yet known, composed of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice. […]

When the battery starts discharging, the sulfur at the cathode starts losing electrons and forming sulfur tetrachloride (SCl4), using chloride […]

Skip to content Yakisugi, a Japanese technique of burning wood surfaces, creates a protective carbonized layer Credit: A. Di maria […]

Back in 2023, we reported on MIT scientists’ conclusion that the ancient Romans employed “hot mixing” with quicklime, among other […]

“To integrate the proboscis, we first removed it from an already euthanized mosquito under a microscope,” Cao explains. Then the […]

VA Tech experiment was inspired by Death Valley’s mysterious “sailing stones” at Racetrack Playa. Graduate student Jack Tapocik sets up […]