Ashley started at The Scientist in 2018. Before joining the staff, she worked as a freelance editor and writer, a writer at the Simons Foundation, and a web producer at Science News, among other ...

cross an inner membrane and then the cell wall, and finally move through a waxy cuticle. Scientists long thought that diffusion drove the release of the molecules, but in 2015, computer simulations ...

I’m sure we have all heard our nail technicians tell us to look after our cuticles better – but do we do it? Probably not. Cuticles serve a purpose in helping to keep nails healthy and strong ...

In a piece for Processing, a Stylist Frame Of Mind series, writer Marcia Kester Doyle shares her journey of discovering her compulsive cuticle biting had a name: dermatophagia. I was sitting in ...

While scientists believed that leaf pores were the primary source of water loss, it appears that the cuticle, a waxy layer, plays a more significant role. This uncontrollable water leakage could turn ...