The universe’s most distant and ancient galaxies are about to be brought into focus. At the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, a multi-university team of researchers has just installed a very sophisticated infrared sensor in the Keck I telescope.
The worst part about having part of your car repainted is that if it’s more than a few years old, you can generally tell where the car was touched up because the paint match wasn’t perfect. Sometimes it’s because factory paint was used, but the paint on your car has faded over time. Other times it’s because they don’t make your car’s colour anymore, and paint matching becomes an artform. But now, as The Economist writes, a European-funded collaboration between three companies has yielded the BYK-mac, a device you hold over any car’s paint, and it will tell you exactly how to recreate colour from scratch.
