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Hair, Hairballs, and Harley Sum Up the Toys of the Week
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, Gizmodo’s regular round up of the latest in plastic goodness. This week, Miles Morales gets upstaged, the Age of Questionable Mutant Hair hits Marvel Legends, and The Suicide Squad is already on the merch train. Check it out!
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Stress Really Can Turn Your Hair White, Mouse Experiment Suggests
The idea that fright or any other kind of stress can turn hair white has endured for centuries. But a new study this week—in mice—provides some of the first concrete evidence of this phenomenon existing. It might also offer a biological explanation for how it happens.
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Scientists Find Another Possible Explanation For Why Hair Goes Grey
Scientists think they have stumbled upon a newly discovered mechanism that could explain why some people’s hair turns grey and others become afflicted with patches of unpigmented skin, a rare, stigmatised condition called vitiligo. Their research, published last Thursday in PLOS Biology, suggests a gene that regulates the natural pigment melanin also keeps our immune…
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Chris Hemsworth Felt Liberated By Thor’s Ragnarok Haircut
Image: Marvel Studios When Thor faces the fall of Asgard and a trip into outer space in the upcoming Thor: Ragnarok, he’s going to do it with a new, shorter hairdo and a full-on Sadness Beard. It’s a look that has at least one major fan in Chris Hemsworth himself.