Well, this should help the old resume.

David Babson, an N.C. State student, just got published in a scholarly physics journal. Wait, isn't that what his professors are supposed to do?

Here's what happened: Two years ago, Babson was working through a problem in his electromagnetism textbook and just couldn't figure out how to get the answer the book was telling him was correct.

That's because the book was wrong. The problem concerning a basics physics principle was flawed.

Here's Babson's story.