We have been trained so well to associate the light bulb with insight and creative thinking that simply sitting under one can inspire, well, insight and creative thinking. That’s the conclusion ...

You can only imagine my surprise to discover that it’s well-nigh impossible to obtain the R20 XL bulbs that I need for my outside floods. What is a poor boy to do? We purchased our current house about ...

The ubiquitous but highly inefficient 60-watt light bulb is in dire need of a makeover. And it could be worth millions in government prize money — and more in government contracts — to the first ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When he was 7, Stephen Katsaros took apart the box fan in his bedroom and reassembled it using a bigger, stronger motor. “It sounded like a B-52, but I was ...

[Uri Shaked]’s lamentation over the breaking of his smart bulb was brief as it was inspiring — now he had a perfectly valid excuse to hack it into a magic light bulb. The first step was disassembling ...

Seeing light bulbs might foster bright ideas, scientists now find. The concept that reaching an insight is much like shining a light into a dark place goes back to at least Plato. It was this ...

Matt Prescott argues that phasing out incandescent light bulbs using financial incentives or even banning them outright would be a good idea. What do you think? The following comments reflect the ...

Seeing light bulbs might foster bright ideas, scientists now find. The concept that reaching an insight is much like shining a light into a dark place goes back to at least Plato. It was this ...