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Gadgets

Why Is This Terrified Woman Exfoliating With A Box Cutter?

The life of a product model isn’t easy, particularly when it involves demoing questionable skin care contraptions. Like this so-called sonic cleanser that looks so much like a box cutter that this model appears legitmately scared for her wellbeing.

2 August 2012

Science

Hairy Electronic Skin That Lets Robots Feel

A coating of hairy electronic skin could soon help robots feel the slightest breath of air or detect the faint vibrations of a beating heart.

19 July 2012

Science

Scientists Use Skin To Replace Brain Cells Destroyed By Parkinson’s Disease

Parkinson’s disease is an incurable degenerative disorder of the central nervous system. But now a team of scientists from Johns Hopkins has grown the brain cells, which are usually destroyed by the disease from skin stem cells, and they’re confident it will help them develop new treatments.

10 July 2012

Science

Sunburn Is Your RNA Crying Out In Pain

Sunburn is painful, dangerous and embarrassing. But despite knowing it’s the body’s protective immune response to high levels of ultraviolet radiation, scientists weren’t exactly sure what the biological process behind it was. It turns out that it’s your ribonucleic acid (RNA) screaming out in pain — a finding that could help eliminate sunburn and other skin ailments for good.

9 May 2012

Science

Study: Sunscreen Poses Skin Cancer Risk

If it’s not one thing, it’s another. While everybody knows that too much time in the sun massively increases the chances of developing skin cancer, new research suggests that a compound found in most sunscreens may also increase the chances of acquiring melanomas. Terrific. We’re screwed either way.

28 January 2012

Science

Scratching Your Ankle Is The Most Pleasurable Itch-Scratching Relief Of All

Scientists have made the shocking discovery that it’s your ankle, not your back, that feels the most awesome to scratch when you are itchy.

26 October 2011

Science

Nanotube-Infused Artificial Skin For Robots And People Alike

Man and machine might not be that different in the future — especially if they share the same synthetic skin being developed at Stanford University.

8 October 2011

Gadgets

Vibrating Face Gadget Claims To Banish Under Eye Bags

Eye bags. No one likes them. And no one gets enough sleep. So everyone has them.

24 August 2011

Science

Blackened, Dying Skin Is The Latest Cocaine Side Effect

Cocaine users are reportedly flooding hospitals with blackened, dying skin and compromised immune systems. The culprit is not the cocaine itself, but the white powder being used to cut the drug.

12 August 2011

Science

What Is This?

It’s not a flower. Maybe it’s part of a making-of documentary of a famous tub-based shock site. Actually, it does involve body modification, but it’s in the service of science, not human debasement.

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