News tagged with eye color
Tanning may be associated with moles in very light-skinned children
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Very-light-skinned children without red hair who tan appear to develop more nevi (birthmarks, moles or other colored spots on the skin) than children who do not tan, according to a report in the September issue of Archives of ...
Show me your DNA and I'll tell you your eye color
Mar 09, 2009 |
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More and more information is being gathered about how human genes influence medically relevant traits, such as the propensity to develop a certain disease. The ultimate goal is to predict whether or not a given trait will ...
New Forensic Method Aims to Predict What a Person Looks Like from DNA Sample
Mar 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Arizona research team recently completed a study looking at the DNA blueprint of almost 1,000 individuals and comparing that to detailed measurements of their hair, skin and ...
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Study shows that color plays musical chairs in the brain (w/ Video)
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Color is normally thought of as a fundamental attribute of an object: a red Corvette, a blue lake, a pink flamingo. Yet despite this popular notion, new research suggests that our perception ...
Social scientist creates computer model to determine human perception of hues
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Variations in how people perceive colors and how those same colors appear on TV, computers and other media have confounded broadcasters, Web designers and printers trying to reproduce lifelike hues.
Sharp Develops Five-Primary-Color LCD That Faithfully Reproduces Real Surface Colors
May 29, 2009 |
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Sharp Corporation has developed a five-primary-color display that faithfully reproduces the real surface colors that humans are capable of perceiving. A prototype of this display will be exhibited at the international symposium ...
Researchers id new class of photoreceptors
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Apr 22, 2008 |
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The identification of a new class of photoreceptors in the retina of fruit flies sheds light on the regulation of the pigments of the eye that confer color vision, researchers at New York University’s Center for Developmental ...
One-eyed filmmaker conceals camera in prosthetic
Mar 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A one-eyed documentary filmmaker is preparing to work with a video camera concealed inside a prosthetic eye, hoping to secretly record people for a project commenting on the global spread of surveillance ...
NYU biologists show how eye's neurons switch functions during metamorphosis
Jun 25, 2008 |
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Researchers at New York University's Center for Developmental Genetics report that the photoreceptors in an insect's eye can change their traditional functions during metamorphosis. The study appears in the most recent issue ...
Color is in the eye of the beholder
Jul 03, 2007 |
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In some regions of Central Europe, salad dressing is made preferably with pumpkin seed oil, which has a strong characteristic nutty flavor and striking color properties. Indeed, in a bottle it appears red, but it looks green ...
Color sensors for better vision
Oct 05, 2009 |
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CMOS image sensors in special cameras -- as used for driver assistance systems -- mostly only provide monochrome images and have a limited sensitivity to light. Thanks to a new production process these sensors ...
No longer a gray area: Our hair bleaches itself as we grow older
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Feb 23, 2009 |
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Wash away your gray? Maybe. A team of European scientists have finally solved a mystery that has perplexed humans throughout the ages: why we turn gray. Despite the notion that gray hair is a sign of wisdom, these researchers ...
Sorter Detects and Removes Damaged Popcorn Kernels
Dec 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A device developed by an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist to sort wheat has been successfully used to detect and remove popcorn kernels that have been damaged by fungi.
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