What better way to mark a lifetime of science than with a tattoo? This permanent body ink is the badge of true passion for these scientists. Ecologists aren’t above obsessing over the cool animals in ...

The development comes from a joint project between Harvard and MIT researchers, and it’s in the form of a tattoo ink that has the capability to monitor the health of the wearer by changing color. For ...

1. From this week’s crop of new tattoos: Abraham writes: “I got mine in grad school (PhD materials science and applied physics, 2004 Cal). The tatoo is a convergent beam electron diffraction (CBED) ...

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This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American When my 18-year old self walked into a tattoo ...

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"I am a biochemist, studying to be a molecular biologist, and the tattoo I am sending is the entry for carbon on the periodic table of elements. Since all living things on this planet at least are ...