paint Galaxy car made with blackest black paint and a pearlescent topcoat Rusty Blazenhoff

tech The legal and creative battle over who gets to modify beloved games Séamus Bellamy

Science Black 4.0 is the blackest paint you can buy Rob Beschizza

DC Comics Gal Gadot might be staying on as Wonder Woman in James Gunn's DC Devin Nealy

racism What's it like to be mixed race in China? Devin Nealy

Copyfight Trademarked "Tiffany Blue" liberated by artist in new paint shade: Tiff Rusty Blazenhoff

The world's blackest ink Rob Beschizza

Science Scientists develop the whitest paint ever David Pescovitz

light Amazing demo of the world's glowiest glow-in-the-dark paint Andrea James

paint The weirdness of a room painted entirely with the world's blackest black paint David Pescovitz

police How funds from major fossil fuel corporations help control police departments Thom Dunn

the abyss also gazes into you A BMW painted with Vantablack Clive Thompson

Business Pangea raised $180m to buy up low-rent Chicago properties "to help poor people," and then created the most brutally efficient eviction mill in Chicago history Cory Doctorow

Art and Design Kickstarter for the blackest black paint in the world Mark Frauenfelder

holes Museum visitor injured after stepping into pit he thought was a painting on the floor Mark Frauenfelder

Technology Bronze masks coated in Vantablack produce trippy illusions Andrea James

occult Touch Me Not, a surreal 18th century manual on how to raise the Devil, and then send him treasure hunting Gareth Branwyn

gop The GOP candidate who would represent a suburban Chicago district is an open Holocaust denier, white supremacist and anti-Semite Cory Doctorow

art A history of artist Anish Kapoor and his assholic mission to own the color black Cory Doctorow

invention This guy is grilling meat inside of a filing cabinet Rusty Blazenhoff