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Q&A Keratin biosynthesis and human hair straightness/smoothness

Some people straighten their head-hair with what's named: Keratin straightening Keratin smoothening Keratin rebonding Keratin treatment It is an external hair straightening procedure in wh...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Why would merfolk have hair?

A classic image of mermaids are their long flowing hair that swishes in the water. But in the scientifically realistic sense this makes none. The hair would be nothing more than a nuisance to the m...

21 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Uncle Tres‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by PinoBatch‭

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Q&A Would Human Hair Be an Electrical Conductor or an Insulator

So in my world it is the future and ALMOST ALL NATURAL METALS are gone. They needed power to get delivered in some form. One scientist thought up a solution: Human hair. The science community was ...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by AdrienDaBoss‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by AdrienDaBoss‭

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Q&A A Strand of Hair One Inch Wide

It turns out that a single strand of human hair measures 17 to 181 millionths of a meter wide. But anyone who creates or reinvents a fictional species of humanoid has the freedom to change the dim...

6 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by JohnWDailey‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by JohnWDailey‭

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Q&A Human hair color boundary?

I know that humans can naturally have more than 1 hair color, whether that is in a transition from 1 color to another or they are born with it. Like for example there are babies with both red and b...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Caters‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Caters‭

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Q&A Prehensile Hair

As I'm sure anyone reading this knows, our body parts move via the brain signaling the appropriate muscles to contract or expand. Now, for hair to function the way it does - its texture, malleabili...

5 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by System‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by System‭

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Q&A Creating natural two tone hair growth

I seek a realistic method, either by genetic change or other scientific method that doesn't require magic or future tech, to obtain naturally occuring two tone hair for a race of humanoids. My id...

6 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Nonafel‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Nonafel‭

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Q&A How to realistically increase hair growth rate

In the answer to this question, it is said that that is needed to be done to make the solution feasible is to increase the growth rate of human hair. But the problem is that I cannot think of any e...

2 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Uncle Tres‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Uncle Tres‭

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Q&A Melanin and you

Melanin is what causes the color to appear in the skin, hair and eyes. But in humans there seems to be a limit to this. For example human hair can be orange(gingers) but not green or blue. iris's c...

3 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Uncle Tres‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Uncle Tres‭