This Velvet Ant Provides New Insights Into Nature’s Ultrablack Secrets
"New research has found an insect species with markings that are so black that they’re ‘superblack’ or ‘ultrablack’, absorbing nearly all visible and ultraviolet light."
#insect #superblack #ultrablack #entomology #VelvetAnt #color #ecology #evolution https://medium.com/grrlscientist/this-velvet-ant-provides-new-insights-into-natures-ultrablack-secrets-0f582f43878c
This Velvet Ant Provides New Insights Into Nature’s Ultrablack Secrets
"New research has found an insect species with markings that are so black that they’re ‘superblack’ or ‘ultrablack’, absorbing nearly all visible and ultraviolet light."
#insect #superblack #ultrablack #entomology #VelvetAnt #color #ecology #evolution https://medium.com/grrlscientist/this-velvet-ant-provides-new-insights-into-natures-ultrablack-secrets-0f582f43878c
This Velvet Ant Provides New Insights Into Nature’s Ultrablack Secrets
"New research has found an insect species with markings that are so black that they’re ‘superblack’ or ‘ultrablack’, absorbing nearly all visible and ultraviolet light."
#insect #superblack #ultrablack #entomology #VelvetAnt #color #ecology #evolution https://medium.com/grrlscientist/this-velvet-ant-provides-new-insights-into-natures-ultrablack-secrets-0f582f43878c
This Velvet Ant Provides New Insights Into Nature’s Ultrablack Secrets
"New research has found an insect species with markings that are so black that they’re ‘superblack’ or ‘ultrablack’, absorbing nearly all visible and ultraviolet light."
#insect #superblack #ultrablack #entomology #VelvetAnt #color #ecology #evolution https://medium.com/grrlscientist/this-velvet-ant-provides-new-insights-into-natures-ultrablack-secrets-0f582f43878c
Fifty Shades of Black: These Bird Feathers Are The Darkest Never Seen
"Scientists studying the many shades of black have discovered how birds create one of the blackest blacks known: super-black feathers."
by @grrlscientist via #Medium
#UltraBlack #SuperBlack #birds #ornithology #colors #feathers #SciComm https://medium.com/grrlscientist/fifty-shades-of-black-these-bird-feathers-are-the-darkest-never-seen-5a2f96e37371
Scientists studying the many shades of black have discovered how birds create one of the blackest blacks known: super-black feathers Long before Britain’s National Physical Laboratory first developed…
This Velvet Ant Provides New Insights Into Nature’s Ultrablack Secrets | Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro & Kiel University, published by Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology
#entomology #insects #superblack #SciComm https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/01/16/this-velvet-ant-provides-new-insights-into-natures-ultrablack-secrets/
This Velvet Ant Provides New Insights Into Nature’s Ultrablack Secrets | Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro & Kiel University, published by Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology
#entomology #insects #superblack #SciComm https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/01/16/this-velvet-ant-provides-new-insights-into-natures-ultrablack-secrets/
UBC super-black wood can improve telescopes, optical devices and consumer goods
By sheer accident, UBC researchers created a new super-black material that absorbs almost all light and trademarked it as Nxylon
https://news.ubc.ca/2024/07/ubc-super-black-wood-nxylon
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41147393
New super-black 'wonder wood' called Nyxlon absorbs almost all light
https://www.earth.com/news/new-super-black-wonder-wood-called-nyxlon-absorbs-almost-all-light/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adsu.202400184
#light #MaterialsScience #UBC #optics #basswood #reflectance #SuperBlack #wood #microstructure #plasmas
Advice requested: My favorite black nail polish is done with life, and it looks like the company making it has gone quiet. The brand was SuperBlack, the color was Murdered Out.
Without a top coat, it had this bizarre, almost rubbery appearance. With a top coat, excellent shine. Opaque enough for one-coat, thick enough I could use it for nail stamping reasonably well.
If you've got replacement recommendations, I'd be thrilled to hear 'em.
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