“The eyes are the window to the soul,” notes a timeless quote. And while your eyes also bring the world your way, the origins of eye color are fascinating and even mysterious. To help lay out the ...

Your baby could start with blue eyes and be completely different by age 1. The first photos of your newborn might capture their sweet baby blues peeking out from under sleepy lids. But by their first ...

Scientists have learned that human eye color genetics are far more complex than we knew. Reporting in Science Advances, an international team of researchers has identified over 50 new genes that ...

A research team from King's College London and Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam has learned more about the genes that give us our individual hair colors. They have found a staggering 124 ...

Mean Girls was right when it posited that hair can be full of secrets. Scientists can determine person’s eating habits, body mass index, and sex from a single strand, proving that a hairdo can do more ...

A new type of cat coat color has officially been discovered. Named salmiak, or ‘salty liquorice,’ the cats have hair strands that start out black, and become white the further they grow from the ...

Apple is working with Color, a genetic testing company, to provide its employees with free genetic screenings for diseases in the tech giant’s onsite health clinics, according to a Dec. 13 CNBC report ...

Color one Bay Area startup happy: It was the only company chosen to take part in an ambitious new project by the National Institutes of Health to decode the genomes of 1 million Americans. Color ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A new type of cat coat color has officially been discovered. Named salmiak, or ‘salty liquorice,’ the ...