M.J. Rose

Here is a story about a color, or rather, a color that is so dark that it is, in fact, the darkest material ever made:

Scientists Create A “New Black,” The Darkest Material Ever Made
Vantablack is the new black.

“According to experts, Vantablack is as close to a black hole imaginable, as it is so dark that the human eye struggles to discern its shape and dimension.

Created by Surrey NanoSystems, the material is ten times stronger than steel.

Surrey NanoSystems’ chief technical officer, Ben Jensen, pointed out how you would expect to see the foil’s crumpling underneath, but instead the human eye sees nothing…”

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Is there anybody out there?

From The Science Explorer,

Strange Repeated Radio Signals Coming From Beyond Our Galaxy, Detected by Astronomers for the First Time
By Johannes Van Zijl

“What could be responsible for emitting these bizarre and repeated radio signals?

Astronomers at McGill University have detected short repeating bursts of radio waves from a mysterious source that is located well beyond the edge of our own Milky Way galaxy. Their finding indicates that these bursts of radio waves must have been emitted by a very powerful source that is capable of producing multiple bursts within a minute. Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are nothing new to astronomers, as FRBs have been detected numerous times in the past, but normally they occur as once-off events.

Paul Scholz, a PhD student at McGill University, was filtering through old results during 2015 from previous observations performed at the Arecibo Radio telescope in Puerto Rico, which is currently the world’s largest radio telescope, when he made a surprising discovery…”

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Creepy or fantastic? We are having a hard time deciding.

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