Albinism is an inherited condition that effects pigment in the skin, hair and eyes, causing vulnerability to the sun and bright light. Because of a lack of melanin, almost all people born with albinism are visually impaired and are prone to developing skin cancer, but are otherwise perfectly

Author: Perrin Drumm / Source: 99U by Behance The global pigments market is expected to reach revenues of $34.2 billion by 2020. Who knew? We follow one Oregon researcher who set out to invent a new kind of semiconductor and ended up with a blue pigment, which could be far more valuable.

Author: Evan Nicole Brown / Source: Atlas Obscura It’s the patch of goldenrod that pulls us to the ground first. “I want to collect some of this,” Kazumi Tanaka says, crafting scissors in hand. Tanaka is gathering richly colored flora native to Manitoga, a 75-acre woodland estate in Garrison,

Author: Kathryn Hulick / Source: Science News for Students Eleni Stavrinidou wasn’t sure what she’d see when she looked through her microscope at a slice of rose stem. Her team was experimenting with the flowers. They were trying to make a cyborg — a living thing with electronic enhancements. In

Source: Mental Floss Even in an increasingly digital world, there’s still a need for printed text. But wasting paper could be a thing of the past with new technology under development by a research team from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; the University of California, Riverside; and