Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. What do ...
With an ability to soak up 99.96 percent of the light that hits it, the material known as Vantablack has earned plenty of attention as the world’s blackest material, with scientists testing it in ...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 30, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MIT and Applied Materials, Inc. (AMAT) announced an agreement today that, together with a grant to MIT from the Northeast ...
(CNN) -- MIT engineers have created a material that is 10 times blacker than anything else ever been reported, the school announced. The material is made from vertically aligned carbon nanotubes, or ...
For decades, physicists taught that superconductivity and magnetism could not share the same space. One state should destroy the other. Yet in the past year, experiments in two very different ...
If the science holds up, it could be a huge advancement in material sciences, potentially giving objects like car parts or cell phones an extraordinarily durable skin. The team is even going as far as ...