A steel razor blade can get dull surprisingly quickly when cutting something as soft as hair, and now researchers have gotten their first up-close look at how a close shave actually damages an ...

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To see how soft hairs could trigger this chipping, he created a setup that let him use the microscope to watch a razor blade as it cut through one or more strands. He had to arrange it so that the ...