Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. During a dive off the coast of Southern California in 1979, ...

Brushes and combs are often lumped together when it comes to hair care. Despite their ability to work through knots, they’re not interchangeable, and they don’t serve all hair types and textures ...

Which comb is best for curly hair? Curly hair tangles easily, and detangling your curls with any comb or brush can cause damage and breakage. Wide-tooth combs designed to detangle and style curly, ...

All animals are related to each other, but comb jellies — a marine invertebrate found in oceans around the world — are the most distantly related to all other animals, shows a new study in Nature.

There's a quiet romance to a great comb. It might seem like a utilitarian object, but the best combs will also detangle, texturize, distribute oils for hair health, stimulate, and, of course, shape ...

The knotty question of the origins of our alphabet has been partly straightened out by the discovery of a comb. In June 2016, an archaeological excavation of the ancient Canaanite city of Lachish led ...

Comb jellies don’t look like much—they’re usually transparent, though they also glow in the dark. They’re native to the western Atlantic but have expanded their range into other waters where they’re ...

Comb jellies – very simple, gelatinous creatures best-known for their hypnotic underwater light shows – first appeared in Earth's oceans around 550 million years ago. For a long time, biologists have ...