Today’s youth are more colorful than their parents, at least when it comes to permanent body art. Once considered taboo in mainstream cultures in the US and Europe, tattoos are more accepted socially ...

Recently, chemists at Binghamton University learned that many tattoo inks in the US contain different pigments than those listed, or unlisted additives. One might expect the European Union, with its ...

John Swierk is an assistant professor of chemistry at Binghamton University, State University of New York. Tattoos are an incredibly common form of permanent self-expression that date back thousands ...