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Scientists created a material so dark they couldn’t even measure it. British company Surrey Nanosystems developed the original Vantablack in 2014, which was then the blackest material in the world. But they’ve outdone themselves with the new Vantablack, which absorbs over 99.8% of visible light. Here’s how Vantablack is so black. Video courtesy of Surrey […]
More than a few LGBT Twitter users were alarmed this weekend when searches for relevant terms (such as #bisexual and #gay) no longer produced results, regardless of what their content settings were. At the least, it made discussions unnecessarily difficult; some even accused Twitter of deliberately silencing LGBT voices. However, it looks like those queries […]
Donald Glover — the actor/musician/standup comedian/creator of 2016’s most critically acclaimed new comedy, Atlanta — has been doing interviews as he takes a break from filming the director-switched (from Phil Lord and Chris Miller to Ron Howard) upcoming Han Solo spinoff of Star Wars, in which he’ll be playing Lando Calrissian. He appears in a huge cover story in this […]
On the /Film Daily podcast for July 25, 2017, Peter Sciretta is joined by Ben Pearson, Hoai-Tran Bui to talk about the latest news in the world of movies: Bloodshot casting, James Bond 25 director short list, Zack Snyder‘s DC future, a new Terminator trilogy, Captain Marvel in Avengers: Infinity War and an interesting Stranger […]
Sounds about right. The full-of-contradictions rapper/prodigious Odd Future creator, Tyler, The Creator has, in the past, been criticized (to the extent of being banned from England, and denounced by GLAAD) for his lyrics involving violence towards woman and high levels of homophobia — particularly with the frivolous use of the word “faggot” across his songs. […]
A federal contractor for a US intelligence agency has allegedly admitted to copying classified materials and sending it to a news source. The charges reportedly stem from the publishing of top secret NSA documents by The Intercept. The FBI arrested Reality Leigh Winner, 25, at her Georgia home on Saturday, according to a Monday news […]
Published time: 25 Apr, 2017 01:59 Mexican officials have issued a nine state alert after a vehicle carrying mobile industrial radiography equipment filled with Iridium-192 was stolen in the city of Tlaquepaque in the state of Jalisco. The company which handles the equipment, Tecnología No Destructiva, SA de CV, reported the theft of a white […]
Published time: 15 Apr, 2017 16:20 Japan has okayed using Mein Kampf, Hitler’s autobiography and Nazi manifesto, in schools for educational purposes just weeks after the similarly controversial Imperial Rescript on Education was approved as “teaching material,” according to media reports. Although the Japanese government approved Hitler’s infamous book as “teaching material” for schools on […]
Pit vipers have an organ between their nose and eyes that allows can detect prey in pitch dark at a distance of a few feet. This “pit organ” is the most sensitive in the animal kingdom, twice as sensitive as human skin and many time more precise than artificial thermometers. But a team of researchers from ETH Zurich and […]
A new “Superhemophobic” medical implant material being developed at Colorado State University will help prevent “rejection” and other complications arising from medical implants by actually repelling blood away from them, according to a new report published in the journal Advanced Healthcare Materials. One of the biggest and most longstanding issues with medical implants is the […]
