North Dakota and Minnesota, we need to talk. Especially you blue-eyed folks. According to an alarming article from 1921, you might be a public menace. Buried in the pages of a San Francisco newspaper ...

All blue-eyed individuals living today are necessarily descended from one individual. Such a framing must be weighed against the fact that every single human alive today is likely descended from that ...

A 2008 study was the first official research noting that a single genetic mutation from less than 10,000 years ago kicked off blue eyes. Fifteen years later and we're still enamored with the concept ...

If you have blue eyes, you’re part of an exclusive genetic club that traces back to one individual. That ancestor passed down an identical mutation that millions now carry. Scientists can actually ...

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A select group of cicadas have joined the likes of Paul Newman and Frank Sinatra as blue-eyed wonders that know how to attract America’s attention. An Illinois arboretum is abuzz after a blue-eyed ...