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Scientists are testing a black paint they hope will stop the night sky turning in to a "motorway of satellites". Noelia Noel, ...
As private companies launch vast networks of satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO), the astronomical community faces an increasing challenge: light pollution. With more than 14,900 satellites already ...
Surrey NanoSystems' Vantablack 310 absorbs 98% of light, helping telescopes & satellites reduce light pollution for deeper space exploration.
In 2016, a noisy battle broke out over one artist’s exclusive rights to a newly developed paint, or coating, called Vantablack. Intended for use in engineering, it was unique for absorbing 99. ...
Cars News: These new technologies being showcased by BMW cannot be compared to traditional paint coatings. They are more comparable to an ePaper film or a nanoma ...
In Dreams in Vantablack, streaming now on CBC Gem, 12 Black youth poets reach within to make sense of a world that has often silenced them.
You can even view most of Porsche's fabulous paint-to-sample options on the online configurator. But even the master of the 'Rennbow' doesn't offer Vantablack, the blackest, black known to man.
The whitest paint ever created is being shown off with glaring results. It could one day help significantly reduce cooling costs for cities in extreme climates.
No color—or, more accurately, lack thereof—has caused more of a media frenzy in recent years than “Vantablack.” The blacker-than-black paint absorbs so much light (99.96%) that when it’s ...
Though technically impressive, Vantablack’s use in the art world was essentially controlled by Anish Kapoor, who was granted exclusive artistic rights to the paint back in 2016. That apparently ...
A Ferrari coated in what appears to be Vantablack has been spotted near one of the automaker's test facilities. It is not known why the supercar was created.
The paint’s whiteness also means that the paint is the coolest on record. Using high-accuracy temperature reading equipment called thermocouples, the researchers demonstrated outdoors that the paint ...