Above the shores of prehistoric seas and lakes, pterosaurs roamed the skies. They were feathered creatures that ranged in ...

Scientists have described a nocturnal moth's unique evolutionary trick in replicating the appearance of 3D leaf, with potential applications for the development of advanced camouflage materials and ...

Hydrangeas demonstrate the importance of phenomics and the powerful influence that the environment has on organisms. The flowers are blue when grown in soil that is acidic but pink when they are grown ...

Researchers from Murdoch University and The University of Western Australia found the forewings of the fruit-sucking moth ...

New research by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln reports, for the ...

A study from Nagoya University found that luteolin, an antioxidant in vegetables, helps prevent hair graying by preserving ...

This startling mechanism for promoting depolymerization relies on an additive that many plastics already contain: a pigment called carbon black that gives plastic its black color. Through a process ...

Researchers are investigating how to increase melanin in the human body, but there are currently few known methods that allow us to naturally increase production of this pigment. Melanin is produced ...

1 Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Pharmacy, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2 Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran Medical Sciences, Islamic Azad University, ...

I have dyed my hair every color under the sun, so I know a good shampoo for color-treated hair has a lot to get right. I want one that preserves my new color and undoes some of the damage that ...

Vitiligo on the penis occurs when patches of skin change color, just as they can on other parts of the body. These melanin (skin pigment) changes occur in about 1% of the United States population, ...