If the weather cooperates, the astronomical event April 8 could eclipse anything ever seen in Northeast Ohio. The last total solar eclipse visible here was in 1806. Over the past 218 years, there have ...

On one hand, the speed of light is just a number: 299,792,458 meters per second. And on the other, it’s one of the most important constants that appears in nature and defines the relationship of ...

Here is the history of light, according to physics. Beyond what we can touch, taste, smell, and hear, we experience the universe through light. But how did we come to discover light, and how did we ...

Saturday, December 21 is the shortest day of the year so we thought it would be a good time to appreciate the history of light bulbs. We walk into a dark room and flick a light switch and don’t think ...

The oldest lighthouse in Massachusetts is over 300 years old. When the Massachusetts Bay Colony was first founded in 1630, the Puritans struggled from a scarcity of necessary survival goods which lead ...