Only a black hole could possibly appear darker than this extraordinary newly discovered cloth material, which absorbs light ...

Imagine a car so black it behaves like a sort of black hole on wheels. Instead of bouncing back sunlight toward your eyes, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have developed a new method for light and matter interaction, paving the way for the production of ultrathin silicon ...

Just when scientists thought they knew everything about crystals, a Northwestern University and University of Wisconsin-Madison collaboration has uncovered a hidden secret. Centrosymmetric crystals ...

Researchers are reporting progress on the road to more efficient utilization of solar energy: They have developed an innovative light-harvesting system. In order to convert sunlight into electricity ...

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When photosynthetic cells absorb light from the sun, packets of energy called photons leap between a series of light-harvesting proteins until they reach the photosynthetic reaction center. There, ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers at the University of Ottawa have made a discovery that changes what we know about light and materials. They found that engineered achiral (symmetric) materials, called ...

A group of physicists from Russia, Sweden, and the U.S. has demonstrated a highly unusual optical effect: They managed to "virtually" absorb light using a material that has no light-absorbing capacity ...

A surprising trick that allows a beam of light to be completely absorbed even in the thinnest of layers: Using mirrors and lenses, a 'light trap' can be constructed, in which the light beam is steered ...

A car painted in deep black already carries a certain message, sleek, expensive, a little intimidating. Now researchers say ...