Michael Zaiken, Alexandra Cohn, and AnaElise Beckman wanted to teach kids about synthetic biology. But the University of Wisconsin-Madison students didn’t opt for a mere blackboard lecture. Instead, ...

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

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It's a common situation: you open the fridge, and the light doesn't come on. So you decide to save the day and just swap in a regular bulb from the junk drawer. But before you do, you should know that ...

If you’re testing old stereo equipment, a dim bulb tester can really come in handy. It’s not for testing bulbs, though, it’s a tester that uses a dim bulb to test other things. [Nicholas Morganti] ...

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The creation of the light bulb is commonly viewed as a human achievement—one of those few technologies that actually revolutionized how we live, work, and socialize with our environment. However, the ...