Briefing Chat: An invisible tattoo that appears under UV light – and then disappears
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Briefing Chat: An invisible tattoo that appears under UV light – and then disappears

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 16, 20269 min
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In this episode: 00:15 An appearing, disappearing tattoo ink Nature: Watch this invisible tattoo appear under UV light 04:13 How the epigenome could help explain why big dogs age faster Nature: Big dogs age faster than little ones — rogue ‘jumping genes’ might be to blame Subscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, opinion and analysis free in your inbox every weekday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Hi listeners, Benjamin here. It's the Friday show, the briefing chat, where we talk about a couple of stories that have been covered in the Nature Briefing. Joining me this week is Maren Hunsberger. Maren, how are you doing? Hello, I'm great. Happy to be here as always.

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Excellent. Well, listen, why don't you go first this week? You've got an interesting story about ink. I do, and I'm going to open with a question for you, Ben. Would you get a tattoo if you could turn it on and off?

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Sure. I mean, yeah. I think maybe some people would, even if they hadn't considered getting a normal tattoo. This kind, they might. This kind of tattoo is made out of something called a photochromic dye.

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