Doctors discover common ingredient used to make popular crisps can make skin transparent

The most surprising part of this study is that we usually expect dye molecules to make things less transparent. For example, if you mix blue pen ink in water, the more ink you add, the less light can pass through the water,

We combined the yellow dye, which is a molecule that absorbs most light, especially blue and ultraviolet light, with skin, which is a scattering medium

Study lead author Dr Zihao Ou, Assistant Professor of physics at The University of Texas, Dallas, said