1 day ago · Engineers at Cornell University have created the blackest fabric on record, finding it absorbs 99.87 percent of all light that dares to illuminate its surface. To make something ultrablack, you can't …

5 days ago · A dress designed by Zoe Alvarez ’25, a fashion design major, and inspired by the magnificent riflebird, uses the ultra-black material (the dots nearest the blue) and other deep-black …

4 days ago · Like an eternal black hole, ultra-black fabric created at Cornell University absorbs 99.87 per cent of light while reflecting the remaining 0.13 per cent.

22 hours ago · Scientists Create the Darkest Fabric Ever Made Inspired by a Bird-of-Paradise’s Feathers A tropical bird’s feather structure inspires a new, wearable ultrablack fabric.

3 days ago · Image: Ryan Young / Cornell University Researchers at Cornell University have created a wearable fabric that absorbs almost all visible light, producing an ultravivid black that remains …

1 day ago · Blackest Fabric Ever Made Absorbs 99.87% of All Light That Hits It (sciencealert.com) 29 Posted by BeauHD on Friday December 05, 2025 @09:02PM from the inspired-by-nature dept.

4 days ago · Science Physics The darkest fabric ever made is now a dress A bird’s ultrablack feathers inspired this versatile material. Laura Baisas Published Dec 1, 2025 3:08 PM EST