But in winter-collected eyes, the collagen fibers were packed much tighter, changing the crystal shape and making it reflect primarily blue light, with a smear into the nearby UV.

The shorter the wavelength of the light, the more it is scattered by the atmosphere. Because its wavelength is so much shorter, blue light is scattered approximately ten times more than red light. In ...

And according to Kirstky, blue-eyed cicadas are "relatively rare." "I estimate that they occur at a 1-in-a-million, but when you have billions of cicadas, that means there will be millions over ...

Blue eyes, in particular, have a near-mythical status, as they are often romanticised in songs, films, and poetry. In places like Bollywood, lyrics praising the charm of "neeli aankhen” are ...

He didn’t think so. A series of studies in the 1920s led to mini-hysteria that blue-eyed people were troublemakers, in part because their lightly pigmented eyes couldn't handle the sun's rays.

This is not a drill: Alexandra Daddario’s son inherited her gorgeous blue eyes! In case you missed it, on April 9, the White Lotus alum shared a series of photos to her Instagram with the ...

(There are outliers, however. A 2024 genetic analysis showed a 1-year-old boy who lived in Europe about 17,000 years ago had dark skin, dark hair and blue eyes.) ...

From iconic historical figures to Hollywood stars - blue eyes have always been 'in'. Yet, few will have guessed they originated in this small corner of Europe.

So if you have blue eyes, now you know - your family is a lot bigger than you might have thought previously. A team at the University of Copenhagen released research on the subject.

Scientists have discovered the oldest evidence of blue eyes in the 17,000-year-old remains of an infant from Italy's Grotta delle Mura cave. Analysis ...

For those of us who don’t know why his eyes are piercingly blue, we’ll have to wait for the release of Wicked: Part 2. We can, however, know the secret behind Bailey’s perfectly sculpted ...