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John Swierk receives funding from National Institute of Health, National Science Foundation, and American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund. Tattoos are an incredibly common form of permanent ...

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, ...

For the past five months, I’ve been living in printer heaven, testing some new inkjet printers designed for professional photographers and graphic artists. I have reviewed Canon’s imagePROGRAF iPF5000 ...

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, ...

A FEW YEARS back, I had a surreal exchange with my mom. She called me about a week after her 50th birthday, and from her breathless greeting, it was clear something was up. "Guess what your uncle and ...

This story was originally published by Inside Science News Service. (ISNS) -- An ancient Egyptian pigment -- apparently humanity's first artificial pigment -- could soon find new life-enabling modern ...

Hard evidence has emerged that nano-sized particles from tattoo inks travel from the skin where they’re embedded to a person’s lymph nodes, where they get stuck. Plenty of circumstantial evidence ...