"PAINT IT BLACK" A couple of years ago I would walk past the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Teddington every day and wonder what the hell it was they got up to in there. I could have probably just rung the bell and asked but it was more fun to think they were up to something EVIL. It turns out they were making black things EVEN BLACKER: Researchers have created the blackest black ever made on Earth, by bubbling a shiny metal plate in nitric acid for a few seconds This is kind of cool. "What did you do at work today Dan?" "I chased up some invoices and ate a pie. What about you mate?" "Oh I made the blackest black ever made on Earth. And ate a pie." Mike is blogging to: nothing