When someone asks, "What color are your eyes?" he should really be asking "What color are your irises?" because it is the iris that contains the pigment that determines the color of your eyes. Despite the fascination eye...

Eye color is a polygenic trait and is determined primarily by the amount and type of pigments in the eye's iris.[1][2] Humans and animals have many phenotypic variations in eye color.[3] In humans, these variations in color are attributed to varying...

Valuable pointers on what to consider when planning and implementing systems for product color-control and automatic color ID. For many durable products--autos, major home appliances, and vinyl siding sheets, just to name three--correct color is an important aspect of product quality. If...

My eyes are hazel. If everyone has a secret physical vanity, this is mine. My iris is not exactly brown, not exactly green, not exactly gray, but modulates from one color to the other according to a variety of factors, ranging from the color...

When Janice Smolinski's 31-year-old son Billy disappeared in 2004, there were no Amber Alerts, no urgent police investigations.Police made the family wait three days to report the Waterbury man's disappearance because a neighbor believed he left town voluntarily. The family organized its own search parties...

William E. Peters, a journalist who wrote one of the first national articles on Martin Luther King Jr., has died. He was 85.Peters died of pneumonia May 20 in a hospice center 20 miles northwest of Denver in Lafayette, Suzanne Peters Payne, the oldest of...