Black 4.0 compared to a typical black acrylic art paint. Credit: Stuart Semple Beyond its greater light absorption, the paint has also seen a usability upgrade over Semple’s past releases.

Glow-in-the-dark paint is a fun medium to use, whether for adding a surprise element to your artwork, creating festive messages, or just plain experimentation. Like regular paints, these come in ...

As Les Roberts, an energy expert at Bionic explains, ‘Painting radiators black can have a small effect on heat emission, but it's unlikely to make a noticeable difference on your energy bills.

The paint, dubbed “Musou Black,” can reportedly absorb 99.4% of visible light. And while that’s obviously a tiny bit less absorbent than Vantablack, the effect is apparently exactly the same.

As private companies launch vast networks of satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO), the astronomical community faces an increasing challenge: light pollution. With more than 14,900 satellites already ...

A stuffed bear covered with Singularity Black paint. (Meghan Kelly/WBUR) The painted bear is a work of art made at NanoLab, covered with a paint that’s competing to be the blackest black in the ...

If you’re looking for a paint to impart an allover metallic effect or one that can just add a light-catching detail here and there, metallic acrylics may be the way to go. But it’s hard enough ...

The base coat is black latex paint in a satin finish. I mixed two colored glazes using water-based silver and aluminum metallic paint. The recipe is 1 part paint to 1 part glazing liquid.

A two-layered paint that reflects infrared light while maintaining its colour could help keep buildings and vehicles cool under hot sun. This could help reduce energy used in cooling, such as by ...

Musou Black paint is a water-based acrylic that absorbs 99.4 percent of all light compared with other black acrylic shades, which are in the low 90s, the maker says. The Lancer Evo has quite a two ...

Homes with front doors painted charcoal, smoky black or a rich jet black sell for $6,271 more than expected, the highest sales premium of all the room and color combinations analyzed.