The colour of human hair is determined by genes, and 124 of them were discovered just last week. It will also help understand diseases like skin and prostate cancer, and explain why men have a thing for blondes. A mutant to fight plastic waste pollutionThe days of plastic waste are numbered. And all because scientists got lucky enough to create a mutant plastic-eating enzyme in the lab. This mutant enzyme isn’t quite going to wipe out the 9-billion tonnes of the planet’s plastic waste just yet.

Source: The Hindu April 23, 2018 13:52 UTC