The researchers studied DNA and hair colour information from hundreds of Europeans.

BBC: Hair colour predicted from genes

Predicting phenotypes - outward traits such as hair colour or eye colour - from DNA information is an emerging field in forensics.

BBC: Forensic test can predict hair and eye colour from DNA

This pattern of digging for information, background and colour went on till late each evening.

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The colour screen displays album art, track and station information.

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Since 1976, Paul Kay of the University of California, Berkeley, another of the paper's authors, has compiled a database of information about how 110 different languages assign colour adjectives to 330 different hues.

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The other two machines used colour-coded slips of paper and chips of wood to represent information.

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Forte features a colour OLED (Organic LED) display to indicate input and output signal levels, mic preamp gain and other useful information, with stylish motion graphics giving you detailed visual information.

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