Scientists in Germany have developed three different tattoo dyes that change color based on the levels of certain health markers in the blood. Scientists are developing color-changing inks that may ...

When a pair of tourists hiking the Alps stumbled across the frozen remains of the mummy Ötzi in 1991 they also, unknowingly, discovered the oldest known examples of tattoos in history. The ...

In Neal Stephenson’s sci-fi novel The Diamond Age, body art has evolved into “constantly shifting mediatronic tattoos”—in-skin displays powered by nanotech robopigments. In the 25 years since the ...

In a new clinical study, scientists from the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) have traced the path and metabolism of the liquid components of tattooing agents in the body for the ...

I'm a tattoo artist that specializes in black-and-gray and color-realism designs. Don't expect the color to look exactly the same as in the reference photo, especially when healed. Consider getting ...

For thousands of years, tattoos have allowed us to view the body as our canvas. Either as adornment or camouflage, they function as permanent reminders of the art that really matters to us. Someone’s ...