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VANTABLACK!
Here's What Happens When You Shine A Laser On The Blackest Material Ever Made
This new material is so black, scientists can't even measure it. In fact, it barely reflects any light at all.
This is a highly unusual property for most substances. Normally, when you shine a laser on a material, you can see the light from the laser drift across it as it reflects back at you.
This is how our eyes can see the colors that make up the world around us.
But when engineers from British company Surrey NanoSystems trace a laser over the blackest material ever, the light disappears
Where does the light go? Basically, it gets trapped inside the material.
Vantablack, as the material is called, is made by tightly packing carbon nanotubes — rods of carbon that are much, much thinner than any human hair — so close together that light goes in, but can't escape.
Surrey NanoSystems made the original Vantablack back in 2014, which they said absorbed 99.96% of the light that hit it.
But this new version of Vantablack (which we first heard about from ScienceAlert) is so black that their machines aren't powerful enough to measure its darkness.
Vantablack is mainly being used in research applications now, so you can't, say, buy a can of it to paint your walls with.
But that would be cool. Let us know if they ever start doing that.
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i played rugby with a guy like that. Midnight that guy.
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Mysterious new orca species likely identified
For the first time, scientists have filmed and studied the elusive “type D” killer whales in the wild.
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Mysterious new orca species likely identified
For the first time, scientists have filmed and studied the elusive “type D” killer whales in the wild.
They need a better handle than "Type D".
Pretty hard to come up with a cooler name than killer whale .
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The “Right Dose” Of Sun Dimming Could Cut Global Warming Effects In Half, Study Says
New research out of Harvard suggests that the “right dose” of solar geoengineering (SG) – spraying tiny reflective particles into the upper atmosphere to filter the Sun’s energy and reflect incoming sunlight – could cool the planet and curb the effects of climate change without adversely impacting some regions.
Article continues, but I'm reminded of this:
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The “Right Dose” Of Sun Dimming Could Cut Global Warming Effects In Half, Study Says
New research out of Harvard suggests that the “right dose” of solar geoengineering (SG) – spraying tiny reflective particles into the upper atmosphere to filter the Sun’s energy and reflect incoming sunlight – could cool the planet and curb the effects of climate change without adversely impacting some regions.
Article continues, but I'm reminded of this:
Wasn't that the concept in Hughlander 2? Some sort of shield stopping solar radiation? I think I watched the movie once but gave up halfway through.
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Yellow slime mold
A Brainless Slime That Shares Memories by Fusing The oozing yellow organism has no neurons, but it can solve mazes, make decisions, and learn by merging together.
The Brainless Slime That Can Learn By Fusing
Physarum molds have no neurons, but they can solve mazes and make decisions. And by merging together, they can share memories.
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Not sure it's been mentioned, but the periodic table turns 150 years old this year.
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Scientific precis of the day of the death of the dinosaurs dig
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/uoc--6md032919.php
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@Stockcar86 breathing also increases the risk of getting cancer...dying is the only sure fire way to avoid it.
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@taniwharugby oxygen kills us. The diseases of old age are a result of cells giving up the battle against explosive old oxygen
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@taniwharugby said in Science!:
@Stockcar86 breathing also increases the risk of getting cancer...dying is the only sure fire way to avoid it.
Attention anti-vaxxers, time to go nek level and be anti-oxygen
Here's What Happens When You Shine A Laser On The Blackest Material Ever Made
