Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A dress designed by Zoe Alvarez ’25, a fashion design major, and inspired by the magnificent riflebird, uses the ultra-black ...

A Cornell University team has created the darkest fabric ever made, inspired by the ultrablack plumage of the magnificent riflebird. By combining polydopamine dye with plasma-etched nanostructures, ...

A fabric that seems to swallow light feels like something from fiction, yet researchers now report a textile that comes remarkably close. A Cornell University team has developed an ultrablack wool ...