The thinnest skin is found on your eyelids. It's a mere 0.0... ...h of an inch) thick there. The thickest skin ? That's found on the sole of your foot. It's 4 mm... ...s between the thinnest and the thickest skin in different parts of your body....
http://www.neatorama.com/trivia/2012/11/26/The-Thinnest-Skin-on-Your-Body/
Gruesome and awesome. Those are probably t... ...most people's mind when they saw the 'Slice' skin cake, made by Edinburgh, UK, cake desig...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/21/Slice-Skin-Cake/
Did you get a sunburn this summe... ...dness you got is actually RNA damage to skin cells. Using both human skin cells and a mouse model, Gallo, first author...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/07/09/red-sunburn-is-rna-damage/
This man spent 28 years driving a truck, thus... ...arter offers this prudent advice: Protect your skin by doing what I do: Stay inside and let the only...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/01/28-years-of-a-truck-driver-tan/
Researchers at the Hannover Medical School in Germ... ...dical School in Germany have developed artificial skin made from spider silk. When formed into a fine me... ...e human body: The researchers found that human skin cells placed on these meshes could flourish, give... ...and air. They were able to cult...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/16/scientists-make-artificial-skin-from-spider-silk/
Everyone knows that if you swim or soak in a tub f... ...f you swim or soak in a tub for a long time, your skin turn all pruny but have you ever considered how t... ...rn all pruny but have you ever considered how the skin doesn't simply dissolve? It's all in the keratin:... ...in:After a period in water the...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/13/why-your-skin-turns-pruny-but-doesnt-dissolve-after-soaking-in-water/
Researchers at the Wake Forest Institute for Regen... ...re developing a printer that they hope can create skin to help injured soldiers immediately after they'r... ...the scientists note, "any loss of full-thickness skin of more than 4 cm in diameter will not heal by it... ...s. The printer has two heads, on...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/10/30/skin-printer-generates-skin-to-cover-injuries/
Researchers at the University of California at Ber... ...at Berkeley have developed an artificial form of skin . It might be used in the future to give robots o... ...bility to feel: The Berkeley group's synthetic skin can either be transferred to another material lik... ...a sticky surface rather than pi...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/09/13/new-artificial-skin-may-help-robots-feel/
skin helps us decipher the sounds we hear with our ear...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/26/people-hear-with-their-skin-as-well-as-their-ears/
It's like a bear skin rug, but with a human. Artist Chrissy Conant made... ...Chrissy Conant made this self-portrait: "Chrissy Skin Rug” represents my relationship to my parents.... ...nts. The rug is a silicone rubber cast of my bare skin . I position myself as a human...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/14/human-skinned-rug/
