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A British company has produced a material so black it absorbs all but 0.035 percent of visual light, which is the new world record apparently. According to the Independent, the “super black” coating is made of carbon nanotubes and is so dark that the human eye cannot understand what it is seeing. To give that so ...

Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, the seminal 1980's series which helped science-geared television programing reach mainstream appeal, will see a 2014 reboot for a new generation, with the sequel series Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey. Hosted by famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and produced by Seth MacFarlane (of Family Guy fame), the new series will air next year in primetime on FOX, and will a

A physics/sociology study conducted by Jesse Silverberg and Matt Bierbaum, doctoral students at Cornell University, has found that crowd behaviors at metal shows, deemed "extreme social gatherings," mirror molecular behaviors, based on video from concerts as well as in-person observation. "In mo ...

According to a new article from Scientific Reports, music has become louder and less varied throughout the years. Speaking with Reuters, researcher Joan Serrà said they "found evidence of a progressive homogenization of the musical discourse." She also ...