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Blog / Deep Sea Invisibility

October 3, 2022 / Syed Masood /

Looking into the mechanism and the evolutionary benefits of deep-sea fish evolving ultra-black skin

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Blog / To Dye or Not To Dye

October 23, 2018November 5, 2018 / Rachel Cherney /

Dyeing hair is a common, but not recent, beauty practice. Hair dyeing (coloring) has been around for thousands of years, using plant-based dyes such as indigo and turmeric before synthetic…

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