Today’s youth are more colorful than their parents, at least when it comes to permanent body art. Once considered taboo in mainstream cultures in the US and Europe, tattoos are more accepted socially ...

BOULDER, Colo. — Mad-scientist kind of moments happen fairly often for nanoengineer Carson Bruns. A few months ago in his lab at the University of Colorado-Boulder, he tested his latest invention on ...

John Swierk is an assistant professor of chemistry at Binghamton University, State University of New York. Tattoos are an incredibly common form of permanent self-expression that date back thousands ...

For many people, the hardest part of getting a tattoo isn’t the needle—it’s the decision-making process. Traditional tattoo planning often comes with challenges like: Limited Options: Browsing through ...

Tattoo artists in Europe are fighting a new ban on two commonly-used green and blue pigments, saying that losing these ink ingredients would be a disaster for their industry and their art. Meanwhile, ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (WVTM) -- A UAB medical student and other dermatologists are on a mission to make safe tattoo ink, specifically in the color red. Matthew Kizla noticed that a lot of patients were ...

There's nothing quite like the excitement of getting a new tattoo. Even though the idea is that it's a permanent piece of body art, there's no denying that they will fade naturally over time. That ...