Researchers in New York reported this month that they have created a paper-thin material that absorbs 99.955 percent of the light that hits it, making it by far the darkest substance ever made — about 30 times as dark as the government’s current standard for blackest black. But scientists are not satisfied. Using other new materials, some are trying to manufacture rudimentary Harry Potter-like cloaks that make objects inside of them literally invisible under the right conditions — the pinnacle of stealthy technology. [Washington Post]
In the past few months some tantalising, and mind-boggling, ideas have emerged: that there should be two dimensions of time, not one; that time could grind to a halt in a few billion years; or, most radical of all, that time does not even exist [Telegraph].
In cutting their funding of the physical sciences, and devaluing science education, the US and UK governments are committing ‘scientific vandalism’ [Spiked].
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