When the lights in your home start to flutter, your first instinct is usually to blame the bulb. Sometimes that is all you are dealing with, but persistent or widespread flicker often points to deeper ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. The lightbulb was flickering over my head. Not the idealized cartoon ...

I’ve also treated the topic of LED illumination more conceptually; take, for example, this piece from more than seven years ago that analyzed LED and CFL light bulbs as potential successors to ...