Every other Friday on Morning Edition, the Outside/In team answers a question from a listener about the natural world. For the past few weeks, we’ve been tackling queries on the theme of “blue.” What ...

A new study suggests the way a language divides up color space can be influenced by contact with other languages. Tsimane' people who learned Spanish as a second language began to classify blue and ...

When we open our eyes, a myriad of colors immediately appear before us. But they are not merely a decoration of our visual world; they enable us to identify objects, materials, and substances in our ...

The color has an unshakable hold on musicians, artists and writers. The background color is inspired by International Klein Blue, a hue that the artist Yves Klein first mixed in the 1950s, using it to ...

The Devil Wears Prada made a cerulean sweater a moment in fashion history. But its scientific history is much older, and more fascinating. In the 1860s, cerulean pigment became popular among painters, ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- The human eye can perceive about 1 million colors, but languages have far fewer words to describe those colors. So-called basic color terms, single color words used frequently by ...