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Tattoo

A tattoo is a design or marking made by the insertion of a pigment into punctures or cuts in the skin.

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Researchers Develop Painless Tattoos That Can Be Self-Administered

Sep. 14, 2022 — Researchers have developed low-cost, painless, and bloodless tattoos that can be self-administered and have many applications, from medical alerts to tracking neutered animals to ...

Exposing What's in Tattoo Ink

Aug. 24, 2022 — From life-like faces to elaborate nature scenes, tattoos are a true art form. But the inks are unregulated in the U.S. Their chemical composition is a mystery, which means potential side effects are ...

Light-Emitting Tattoo Engineered

Feb. 26, 2021 — The technology, which uses organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), is applied in the same way as water transfer tattoos. That is, the OLEDs are fabricated on to temporary tattoo paper and transferred ...

Palm E-Tattoo Can Tell When You're Stressed out

Dec. 2, 2022 — Researchers have applied emerging electronic tattoo (e-tattoo) technology to the tricky task of measuring stress levels by attaching a device to people's ...

Latest in Body Art? 'Tattoos' for Individual Cells

Aug. 7, 2023 — Engineers have developed nanoscale tattoos -- dots and wires that adhere to live cells -- in a breakthrough that puts researchers one step closer to tracking the health of individual ...

Graphene 'Tattoo' Treats Cardiac Arrhythmia With Light

Apr. 17, 2023 — Researchers have developed the first cardiac implant made from graphene, a two-dimensional super material with ultra-strong, lightweight and conductive properties. Similar in appearance to a ...

Tattoo Made of Gold Nanoparticles Revolutionizes Medical Diagnostics

Apr. 6, 2021 — Scientists have developed a novel type of implantable sensor that continuously transmits information on vital values and concentrations of substances or drugs in the body and can be operated in the ...

Is It COVID-19 or the Flu? New Sensor Could Tell You in 10 Seconds

Mar. 28, 2023 — Have a cough, sore throat and congestion? Any number of respiratory viruses could be responsible. Today, scientists report using a single-atom-thick nanomaterial to build a device that can ...

Soft Pressure Sensor Breakthrough Solves Field's Most Challenging Bottleneck

Sep. 28, 2021 — Researchers solved one of the biggest problems with existing wearable pressure sensors: even the slightest amount of pressure, something as light as a tight long sleeve shirt over a sensor, can throw ...

Researchers Design New Inks for 3D-Printable Wearable Bioelectronics

Aug. 18, 2022 — A team of researchers has developed a new class of biomaterial inks that mimic native characteristics of highly conductive human tissue, much like skin, which are essential for the ink to be used in ...

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'Shocking' Discovery: Electricity from Electric Eels May Transfer Genetic Material to Nearby Animals

Dec. 5, 2023 — Researchers have discovered that electric eels can alter the genes of tiny fish larvae with their electric shock. Their findings help to better understand electroporation, a method by which genes can ...

Geoscientists Map Changes in Atmospheric CO2 Over Past 66 Million Years

Dec. 7, 2023 — An international consortium of geoscientists has reconstructed atmosphereric levels of CO2 going back 66 million years using proxies in the geoloogical record. Today's concenteration, 420 parts per million, is higher than it's ever been in 14 ...

Ancient Stars Made Extraordinarily Heavy Elements

Dec. 7, 2023 — How heavy can an element be? An international team of researchers has found that ancient stars were capable of producing elements with atomic masses greater than 260, heavier than any element on the periodic table found naturally on Earth. The ...

Mice Pass the Mirror Test, a Classic Indicator of Self-Recognition

Dec. 5, 2023 — Researchers report that mice display behavior that resembles self-recognition when they see themselves in the mirror. When the researchers marked the foreheads of black-furred mice with a spot of white ink, the mice spent more time grooming their ...

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