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 ...

On Thursday, a team of MIT engineers reported that they’d created a material that absorbs 99.995 percent of light that reaches it — making it even blacker than Surrey NanoSystems’ mind-bending ...

(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 ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology stumbled onto what one called a “very radical” discovery — the new material they had created, akin to silk, could function much in the way a ...