What better way to mark a lifetime of science than with a tattoo? This permanent body ink is the badge of true passion for these scientists. Ecologists aren’t above obsessing over the cool animals in ...

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The development comes from a joint project between Harvard and MIT researchers, and it’s in the form of a tattoo ink that has the capability to monitor the health of the wearer by changing color. For ...

1. From this week’s crop of new tattoos: Abraham writes: “I got mine in grad school (PhD materials science and applied physics, 2004 Cal). The tatoo is a convergent beam electron diffraction (CBED) ...

To complement the recent science tattoos strutting around the Web, The Loom features a math tat. The tattoo’s canvas, named Mark, explains: “This is a formula called the Y Combinator. It is a ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American When my 18-year old self walked into a tattoo ...

“The atom is on the left shoulder of Raychelle Burks, chemistry PhD candidate at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. She got the tattoo upon turning 18 and deciding to pursue a career in science.