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Color

Before orange the fruit, was there orange the color?

How Orange (the Fruit) Inspired Orange (the Color)

Until the Renaissance, the English language had no word for yellow-red.

Anne Ewbank March 1, 2018

The pavilion.

Pyeongchang, South Korea

Vantablack Hyundai Pavilion

The darkest building on Earth was built for the snow-white scenery of the 2018 Winter Olympics.

A colony of Flavobacterium IR1 in a agar plate.

In the Future, We May Paint With Brightly Colored Bacteria

Researchers have cracked the genetic code behind nature's structural colors, allowing them to be replicated fast.

Christina Ayele Djossa February 20, 2018

Gitanjali Art Gallery, Fontainhas.

Fontainhas

This colorful colonial neighborhood in Panjim is one of the only Latin Quarters in Asia.

Buildings at Sewell

Sewell Ghost Town

The “City of Stairs” sits high in the Andes, above the world’s largest underground copper mine.

Abandoned salt mine.

Yekaterinburg, Russia

Psychedelic Salt Mines

It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.

Coal tar colors being tested for safety.

When Food Dye Was Made From Coal Tar

It was considered almost magical.

Anne Ewbank January 23, 2018

Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta Rainbow Crosswalks

A colorful square marks the heart of the city's LGBTQ community.

<em>Caihong juji</em> was a study in contrasts.

How We Know That This Dinosaur Had Bright, Audacious Plumage

Microscopic structures hint at an iridescent past.

Jessica Leigh Hester January 15, 2018

Rue Crémieux

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

Red Rock Coulee

Red Rock Coulee

Huge spherical rocks in the middle of the prairie.

Old Station, California

Painted Dunes

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

The Green Lagoon.

Green Lagoon

This beautifully verdant lagoon is tucked below a massive volcano in a crater atop a black pebble beach.

Luca Picciau/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

La Maddalena, Italy

Spiaggia Rosa (Pink Beach)

Crushed coral and crystals give the sand its signature coloration.

Paraty Casa de Cultura

Masonic Symbols of Paraty

This Brazilian town built by Freemasons is full of colonial Masonic architecture and symbolic imagery.

Aerial view of Algae farm at the Natural Energy Lab of Hawai'i.

Kailua-Kona, Hawaii

Algae Growing Ponds

Football field-sized microalgae production tanks on the Hawaiian coast create a stunning view from space.

Place de la Reunion Fountain

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

The colorful, glowing rocks of Sterling Hill

Ogdensburg, New Jersey

Fluorescent Rocks of Sterling Hill Mine

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.