The words that the English language uses to define human skin tones are imprecise, and doesn’t capture the wide range of colors that exist in the human palette. Angélica Dass attempts to ...

Diversity is important to Bass, and not just for skin tone. She’s photographed at art fairs and galleries, but then expanded to favelas, NGO offices, the headquarters of UNESCO, and even ...

Skin pigmentation may act as a "sponge" for some medications, potentially influencing the speed with which active drugs reach their intended targets, a pair of scientists report in a perspective ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia, Nov. 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- In a world where technology and AI shapes perceptions, are smartphones truly capturing the full spectrum and beauty of human diversity, especially ...

Your emoji library may soon get a makeover. More skin-tone options for the online characters could hit smartphones in 2015. The Unicode Consortium, developers of the pictographs commonly used for ...

A team of Penn State geneticists is pursuing the answers to an age-old question of human biology: the genetic origin of fundamental variations in skin pigmentation between people of different ...

Google, Meta, and others test their algorithms for bias using standardized skin tone scales. Sony says those tools ignore the yellow and red hues at work in human skin color.

The Human Edge. A Fishy Take On Human Skin Tones. Humans are descended from ancient fish, and we've kept many of our fishy genes.