New research suggests that hearing your own heartbeat can make you feel comfortable in your own skin.
The US government has responded to a tongue-in-cheek petition asking them to build a Death Star.
Silvery fish such as sardines can use their silvery skin to camouflage themselves from predators.
Scientists are developing an electronic patch that can monitor a person'a vital signs in real time.
The mystery surrounding a 19th century family whose inbred children had blue skin has been solved.
Police in the UK have expressed disdain for members of the public asking them stupid questions.
Volunteer Santa trackers reported a record number of calls and queries asking about Santa's progress.
Etibar Elchyev achieved a world record for sticking 50 metal spoons magnetically to his body.
Some dinosaurs may have stored vital minerals in bones encased within their skin, it has been revealed.
"Electronic skin" that could be attached to a patient's body has been developed by scientists.
A skin patch that may cure thousands of their deadly peanut allergy has been developed by doctors.
Scientists have mapped organic compounds in a 50-million year-old reptile skin sample.
7-year-old Bogdan is able to make a host of different metal objects and even plates stick to his skin.
An unusual animal with no hair and wrinkly skin has been shot and killed in Kentucky this month.
A variety of skink has gone from laying eggs to live births giving scientists a unique glimpse of change in action.
A Russian MP has now joined the fray by asking the Russian President to investigate Kirsan Ilyumzhinov's alien claims.
A new type of synthetic skin for robots has been developed by the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa.
A painless new injection system has been developed in Japan that can deliver drugs to the body without breaking the skin.
A new type of display is being developed that would project a touchscreen display on to the user's arm.
A pensioner who bought a bunch of bananas in Asda was astonished to find that one of them had two bananas inside its skin.