Engineers built tattoo inks that switch on under UV light and fade indoors, and the inventor has worn the color-changing ...

The 'Weekly Stationery Door' is a live YouTube broadcast where the Stationery King (Masayuki Takahata), editor-in-chief of ...

A 25-year-old German experimental photographer has won the 2026 Nikon Small World photomicrography competition with a striking image of droplets of ink being deposited on paper by an inkjet printer.

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A chalk line scrawled on a building. Invisible ink. A secret message wedged between the wooden planks of a park bench. Such old-school espionage tactics — known as “sticks and bricks” — could become ...

There's a kind of wave in the ocean that can dwarf anything at Nazaré, home to what most people think of as the world's biggest waves. You won't see it break, won't hear it roar, and you could sail ...

In the summer of 1822, as crop failures left parts of Ireland hungry, the Anglo-Irish novelist Maria Edgeworth wrote to her friend David Ricardo with a question: Was Ireland wise to depend so heavily ...

Josh has a degree in Biology from University College London, and specialises in animals, palaeontology, climate, and the environment.View full profile Josh has a degree in Biology from University ...

The California Arts Council has awarded The Ink People and three DreamMaker Projects with Operational and Project-based grants during their 2026 grant cycle. Veterans’ Clay Group, DIY Art + Ecology ...

Chris experiments with banknotes from around the world that glow under UV light, revealing their hidden security features. He then prints his own invisible ink designs on them to create magical ...

Once the hallmark of bikers, sailors, and general riff-raff, tattoos have become far more mainstream, decorating the bodies of everyone from teachers to lawyers to world-class surgeons. Nonetheless, ...

Carson Bruns, a nanoscientist at the University of Colorado Boulder, has joined a long list of scientists who experiment on themselves. In Bruns’ case, he tattooed his leg with an invisible ink. The ...