Snow white

Look at the whitest paint ever invented

Vantablack has met its match.

by Robin Bea
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Sergei Bobylev/TASS/Getty Images

You may have heard of Vantablack — the “blackest black” material that absorbs 99.9 percent of all light that strikes it.

Now, scientists have created its near opposite, a white paint that reflects almost all of the light that shines on it.

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