More than a century after their invention, tungsten filaments—the coiled metal wires at the heart of many incandescent light bulbs—continue to be popular. This is despite the growing market for LED ...

Light bulbs are living on borrowed time, but why do their timers tend to expire just as you turn on a light, instead of flickering out randomly? Everyone has had the experience of coming home from a ...

Tungsten-filament bulbs — the most widely used light source in the world — burn hands if unscrewed while lit. The bulbs are infamous for generating more heat than light. Now a microscopic tungsten ...

As inventors in the early 1900s vied to devise the best incandescent lightbulb, tungsten won out over carbon for making filaments. Today, however, there’s a form of carbon that was unknown back ...

LIVERMORE — Imagine a world in which light bulbs never die. People could live their whole lives without ever scorching their fingertips trying to change an incandescent bulb. Long after they were gone ...

We live in a world where smartphones last for about 2.5 years, and even the best light bulbs fizzle out unexpectedly when you need them the most. That said, here is one bulb defying the odds, a ...

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Jinquan Wei and colleagues from Tsinghua University and Bingqing Wei at Louisiana State University started by using chemical vapour deposition to make highly pure nanotubes. Next they soaked the ...

The centennial light bulb has been running for over hundred years now, continuing to amaze everyone with its engineering.