Forget colorful holiday lights. In the last few weeks of 2013, plain-Jane incandescent light bulbs were a hot product, thanks to a ban on making or importing conventional 40- and 60-watt incandescent ...

In journalism, we call it “burying the lead.” That’s what the New York Times did in a Sept. 25 story headlined “Build a Better Bulb for a $10 Million Prize.” The story said that the U.S. Department of ...

Last month, presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., told the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans that “President Bachmann will allow you to buy any light bulb you ...

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Plugging in something like an antique radio to see if it works is a good way to have a bad time, because some old components don’t age well. For vintage electronics, inspection and repair are steps ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman’s office this afternoon sent out a press release hammering the Washington Post‘s page-one ...

A big bulb doesn’t mean big light output: This dim unit trades brightness for a rock-bottom price tag. You aren’t misreading the chart below: With just 180 lumens of power, the OORT SmartLED is by far ...

Dim bulbs: Buzz doesn’t cry, but even we can be moved by the news once in a while. The stories in April about Mercy, the dog that rescuers tried and failed to save after she was intentionally set ...

The popular ‘zero-watt bulb' found in many Indian homes does not actually consume zero electricity. The name dates back to ...