Triboluminescence. The core theory is something called "triboluminescence," which occurs when two contacting surfaces move relative to each other. As the tape peels, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Scotch tape is not only see-through, it can also see through, for the product can be used to take X-rays, bemused scientists say ...

When black tire tape is stripped in neon, the reddish luminescence is not marked." Here's that effect seen in band-aids. The phenomenon was first described by Francis Bacon in 1605 whilst crushing ...

The UCLA researchers used the Scotch tape to prove that triboluminescence can be harnessed for x-ray imaging. Their ultimate imaging device, Camara predicts, won’t use the adhesive.

The peeling of common household pressure-sensitive tape has long been known to be a source of triboluminescence—the phenomenon where two surfaces moving relative to one another give off light ...

Triboluminescence, the phenomenon behind the glow of Scotch tape, is a kind of energy release that happens “whenever a solid (often a crystal) is crushed, rubbed or scratched,” Katharine ...

They show that simply peeling the tape from its roll can create flashes of X-rays intense enough to record images of a human finger. The phenomenon of generating visible light by moving contacting ...

The sticky-tape X-ray machine is also baffling others in the field. "You wouldn't have thought that so much of the mechanical energy would come out as X-rays," says Ken Suslick, an expert in ...

Bandaids and tape glow an eerie blue when you peel them open. ... We do know that triboluminescence is caused by the build up of excess charge or charged particles that lead to a spark.

It’s called triboluminescence and has been observed since the 1950s in tapes and far earlier in other materials (even sugar when scraped in a dark room will apparently illuminate). The mechanism ...

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 ...