A team led by NASA's Maxim Markevitch is investigating the possibility of building bigger X-ray telescope mirrors – up to thirty times as large as today's – using a plastic tape coated with a ...

Scotch tape, that transparent, sticky hero of offices everywhere, could be a NASA superstar as well. The rolled-up adhesive tape is the inspiration behind a novel idea for a completely new kind of ...

A new X-ray imaging technique that uses sticky, or Scotch, tape as a diffuser to generate “speckle” patterns makes it possible to characterize strongly curved X-ray mirrors in two dimensions with ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X It’s hardly worth declaring a cassette revival, or even to say tapes are the new vinyl. But the ...

What this means for your home A no-drill mirror can hold firm through autumn and beyond if you treat the bond like a system: suitable tape, clean surfaces, decent temperature, even load, and routine ...

When you think of a particle accelerator, you’re probably thinking of tens of kilometers of tube buried underground, at high vacuum, that uses precisely timed electromagnetic fields to push charged ...