Telescopes

Blacker Than Black Nanotubes are the New Black

The military shows interest in a new material that's 30 times as dark as the current standard—but it's good for solar panels too!

We told you about a new ultra-black material back in January and guess who was the first group to come knocking on the researchers' door?

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Next Big Things

These 10 telescopes won't just revolutionize our understanding of the cosmos, they´ll change everything we think a telescope can be

We’ve never known
more about the universe than we do right
now—and that’s precisely the problem.
Every significant astronomical discovery of
the past 50 years—afterglow from the
big bang, evidence of dark matter,
planets circling distant stars, just to name a few—has helped to create an ever-larger and more perplexing set of cosmic questions: Is there life on those faraway planets? How
did the first stars form after the big bang?

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