It started with a spark: The history of the colour orange

It started with a spark: The history of the colour orange

We are taking a look back at stories from Cosmos Magazine in print. It’s a colour, but it’s also the fruit, the butterfly’s wing, the flash of sun in a rock and the glow of the infant universe… It’s far more than a narrow band of wavelengths. In this lyrical story from December 2023, Ashley Hay illuminates the history of orange and how it may have made us human. It’s a spring night in south-east Queensland, just before the rising of a slightly w…