Ghoulish Science

.. And .. maybe even more ground shakingly:

Wombat faeces mystery accidentally solved by scientists

(Hey .. its Ig-Nobel time of the year .. again! )
.. Gotta wonder about the competitive advantage of that one!?

Perhaps more in keeping with, (loosely speaking), the dark themes of this thread is this news:

Engineers Just Unveiled a New Blackest-Ever Material, Even Darker Than Vantablack.

(Never heard of 'Vantablack' before ..)

SelfSim said:

Perhaps more in keeping with, (loosely speaking), the dark themes of this thread is this news:

Engineers Just Unveiled a New Blackest-Ever Material, Even Darker Than Vantablack.

(Never heard of 'Vantablack' before ..)

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Vantablack has been in the news for its interesting side-story: Pinkest Pink vs Blackest Black.

sjastro said:

https://phys.org/news/2019-09-skin-crawling-discovery-body-farm-scientists.html

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this is new? isn't it just rigor mortis?