'Perfect black' coating can render a 3D object flat (ns.umich.edu)

Any pictures of this?

And not one picture? Honestly why would someone go to all the effort of writing so much to describe what something looks like.

Here's a (not terrific) picture of this in action:

http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/38262.php?from=1992...

Hihger res:

http://media.gizmodo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Carbon...

Any video of this? Picture might not work but a video of it being applied would work..

I was with them up until the speculation that this might explain "missing mass". MACHOs have been generally been rejected as a viable explanation for missing mass, and have been for a while, so creating a rather contrived explanation for why we might not see them is very late to the party.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_compact_halo_object#The...

"Somebody" ought to make a list of the 10 or 20 Mandatory Science Press Release Topics. Every press release must work in at least one of them, regardless of how much the actual result in question must be stretched. Honestly, Better Solar Heating should have hit the Green checkbox and you'd think that'd be adequate....