“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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Your baby could start with blue eyes and be completely different by age 1. The first photos of your newborn might capture their ...

In 2008, geneticists tied most modern blue eyes to a single, shared DNA change a tiny edit that still sits like a fingerprint ...

What determines the shade of your peepers? Experts weigh in on the rarest eye color in the world—and the genetics behind it. It’s said that our eyes are the mirrors of our souls, so it makes sense ...

Why Meg Foster’s Eyes Have Turned Heads—and Raised Questions Hollywood has always been intrigued by faces that defy co ...

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 ...

An international team of scientists has identified 50 more genes for eye color. In a 12-page study published Thursday in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances, researchers led by King’s College ...

In this episode, we’ll learn about Gregor Mendel, who used pea plants to study genetics. All of the different plants on Earth—from mango trees to marigolds—have come about thanks to the simple rules ...