Gone are the days in which tattoos were just permanent wearable decor on one’s body. Now, scientists are hoping to add some function to the permanent skin marking. Researchers at the Technical ...

A group of MIT and Harvard Medical School researchers explored the possibility of color-changing, health-monitoring tattoos. The smart ink can detect blood sugar elevation and dehydration. One of the ...

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 ...

A person applying the color-changing tattoo, and a color chart for the medical-alerting tattoo. Ali Yetisen et al. See more of our coverage in your search results. Soon, tattoos won’t just show how ...

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 the tattoo world, there's a common misconception that color tattoos are harder to achieve on deeper skin tones. However, tattoo artists who understand how to properly ink Black and Brown skin have ...