The pigments that create skin, hair, and eye color are produced in organelles called melanosomes, which are located within skin cells called melanocytes and several types of eye pigment cells.

Traces of a rare and expensive blue pigment, called ultramarine, have been detected in the teeth of a woman who died in Germany nearly 1,000 years ago. The discovery suggests women played a more ...

An international research team from Spain and France has carried out the chemical and technological analysis of the largest known collection of red and yellow mineral pigments, commonly called ochre, ...

The textile industry pollutes 20 percent of the world’s drinkable water, according to the World Resources Institute, and is second only to the oil industry in terms of damage done. The fabric dyeing ...

ONE of the principle factors to be considered in the preparation of media for the detection of fluorescent pigments by Pseudomonas is the content of available iron. When Totter and Moseley 1 tested ...

Scientists at UC San Diego have moved one step closer to unlocking a superpower held by some of nature’s greatest “masters of disguise.” Octopuses, squids, cuttlefish and other animals in the ...