Many people who work in the printing industry or office work, where they often handle paper, are frustrated by the painful and slow-to-heal cuts they get from paper, even though they are not deep.

It's happened to the best of us. There you are, minding your own business, sealing envelopes or replacing the printer ream, and tsssss ouch! A freshly minted paper cut, oozing ruby-red human juice, ...

The most dangerous type of paper is 65 millionths of a metre thick – at least when it comes to paper cuts. “I got many paper cuts and frankly they were starting to annoy me,” says Kaare Jensen at the ...