“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A closer look at the surprising personality patterns often associated with blue, brown, green, and hazel eyes — and what they might say about your emotional world.

Wait, if you have blue eyes, we might actually be related—like, for real. It turns out that every person with blue eyes on ...