To tattoo a tardigrade, Zhao and his colleagues adapted a nanofabrication technique called ice lithography. This is a form of ...

Scientists etched micro-tattoos on tardigrades without hurting them, opening new doors for future biomedicine research.

If you haven't heard of a tardigrade before, prepare to be wowed. These clumsy, eight-legged creatures, nicknamed water bears, are about half a millimeter long and can survive practically anything: ...