Have you ever found yourself wondering which came first: oranges the fruit or the red-yellow color? Well, orange-we-glad that you asked… The fruits originally come from the foothills of the Himalayas ...

Editor’s Note: This feature is part of Colorscope, an award-winning series exploring our perception of color and its use across cultures, one shade at a time. It is the color of fall, of beautiful ...

In some ways, colors are the ultimate example of language's power. The earliest humans didn't have words for colors. They had words for objects and actions, and it took tens of thousands of years for ...

Languages tend to divide the "warm" part of the color spectrum into more color words, such as orange, yellow, and red, compared to the "cooler" regions, which include blue and green, cognitive ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- The human eye can perceive millions of different colors, but the number of categories human languages use to group those colors is much smaller. Some languages use as few as three ...