Category: Myths and folklore
2 articles in this category.
- Do hair and nails grow after death? — The widely believed claim that hair and fingernails keep growing after a person dies. They do not — but they really do look like they do, and there's a tidy bit of physics behind the illusion.
- Why hair turns gray — Gray hair is not really gray — it is a mix of pigmented and pigment-free strands, the result of color factories in the follicle quietly clocking out. And no, it cannot happen overnight, despite what they said about Marie Antoinette.