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Scientists with the University of Chicago have discovered a way to create a material that can be made like a plastic, but conducts electricity more like a metal. Votator For Gelatin

"This is a little strange, I am sure," began the letter Jessi Zahm, of Newberg, Oregon, found on her doorstep this September, "but we live up the street from you and we drive by your house daily."

Zahm had a secret admirer — or rather, one of her Halloween decorations did.