News tagged with tattoos


Study examines motivations for tattoo removal

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 21, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Individuals who visit dermatology clinics for tattoo removal are more likely to be women than men, and may be motivated by the social stigma associated with tattoos and negative comments by others, according to a report in ...


Probing Question: What is the history of tattooing?

Probing Question: What is the history of tattooing?

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 03, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

You might not think the sullen, tattooed teenager skulking around your local record store has anything in common with Winston Churchill, but you would be wrong. Sir Winston, King George V, and the slaves of ...





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MSU researcher creates system helping police to match tattoos to suspects

Technology / Software

created Jun 19, 2008 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (11) | comments 0

A Michigan State University researcher has created an automatic image retrieval system, whereby law enforcement agencies will be able to match scars, marks and tattoos to identify suspects and victims.


Study Examines Role of Tattoos in Construction of Personal Identity

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 18, 2007 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Marketing experts know that consumers use products to help construct personal identity. When a person decides to purchase a Hummer rather than a Prius, for instance, that person is also buying a certain lifestyle or attitude. ...


New ink makes tattoos less permanent

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 30, 2006 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Scientists at two U.S. universities developed a solution to make tattoos less permanent -- an ink that can be removed with a single laser treatment.


HP Adds iPod shuffle to Digital Music Player Lineup

Electronics /

created Jul 01, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rounding out its lineup of digital music players, HP today added the Apple iPod shuffle from HP. HP is offering two models: the $99.99 512 megabyte version, which holds up to 120 songs, and the $129.99 1 gigabyte version, whi ...


Chemicals in tattoo inks need closer scrutiny

Other Sciences /

created Mar 14, 2005 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

As tattoos have grown in popularity, so have complaints of adverse side effects associated with both their application and removal. A new study, done by chemistry students at Northern Arizona University, looked at the chemical ...


Engineering students: Airbrush not just for artists

Engineering students: Airbrush not just for artists

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 14, 2008 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (16) | comments 0

The airbrush, that tool behind tattoos and T-shirts, may have an unexpected future … in technology.


Food 'Tattoos' an Alternative to Labels for Identifying Fruit

Food 'Tattoos' an Alternative to Labels for Identifying Fruit

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Those small and sometimes inconvenient sticky labels on produce may eventually be replaced by laser "tattoo" technology now being tested by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and University ...


DNA 'tattoos' link adult, daughter stem cells in planarians

Biology /

created Sep 10, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Unlike some parents, adult stem cells don't seem to mind when their daughters get a tattoo. In fact, they're willing to pass them along. Using the molecular equivalent of a tattoo on DNA that adult stem cells (ASC) pass to ...


A mother’s criticism touches nerve in formerly depressed

A mother's criticism causes distinctive neural activity among formerly depressed

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Formerly depressed women show patterns of brain activity when they are criticized by their mothers that are distinctly different from the patterns shown by never depressed controls, according ...


Molecular Solomon’s Knot

Chemistry /

created Dec 15, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (11) | comments 0

It has been a beloved symbol for centuries, prized as an ornament found in engravings and embroidery, mosaics, and tattoos—and now as a molecule: Solomon’s knot, a motif consisting of two doubly intertwined rings.



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