University of Tennessee provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. When people name the most important inventions in history, light bulbs are usually on the list. They were much safer than ...

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Utility rates are rising in many places across the country, and we’re continuing to report on the causes and impacts. By Ivan Penn and Rebecca F. Elliott By studying how worms use electric charge to ...

Lighting makes or breaks a dinner party vibe so opt for a few smaller, low-watt light sources instead of one big, bright one.

A biography of the Afro-American inventor who, among other contributions, invented an inexpensive method for manufacturing carbon filaments for electric light bulbs ...

Most people with lupus have what’s called photosensitivity. That means you are sensitive to ultraviolet (UV) rays from sunlight and some types of indoor lighting. It’s important to understand how UV ...

The Solid Fuel Ramjet (SFRJ) and the Hypersonic Dual-Mode Ramjet (DMRJ) are seeing rapid success as the U.S. hikes spending and development of hypersonic weapons. GE Aerospace has shed more light on ...

It’s not often that a new manufacturer enters the light commercial vehicle market. We’ve recently seen Farizon arrive here, and BYD is following, but if there’s one brand that could shake things up, ...

Brett T. Evans has more than a decade of experience driving, writing about, and evaluating automobiles. His early career comprised writing about pre- and post-war classic cars, as well as late-model ...

UNTIL the end of the nineteenth century, the quiet little city of Kingston, some eighty-five miles up the Hudson, was the centre of two now almost defunct industries. One of these was the mining of ...

The Real Thing at the Met Museum shows that the advertising tactics of commercial studios were in dialogue with avant-garde art in the 1920 and ’30s. A new exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art ...