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Credit typically goes to inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Edison. But the actual story is more complicated and interesting.

Researchers at the University of Michigan developed a new type of incandescent light bulb capable of emitting bright, twisted light—known as chiral light—using technology reminiscent of Thomas ...

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The largest electric light bulb ever made—22 in. high and 15 in. in diameter—side by side with the smallest, no larger than a grain of rice, was exhibited at the Sprague plant of the General Electric ...

There's a light that never goes out… well, almost never. Since the invention of commercial light bulbs in the late 19th century, one bulb has outshone all others. In 2025, it could enter its 124th ...

There's nothing like coming home after a long day to the warm, glowing welcome of your front porch. Less enjoyable: being assaulted by the insects that are fluttering around the porch lights, just ...

JACKSON, MI -- Though she’s a lifelong lover of nature and science, Aleta Damm originally had no plans to enter the teaching field. But she became an educator in “a roundabout way.” When she began ...