Some non-iPhone-related news for you! If you’ve ever used fluorescent bulbs, you know that they take a while to reach full brightness. This can be a bad thing in certain situations, like bathrooms.

It was 53 years ago that a General Electric engineer in Syracuse, Nick Holonyak, turned on the first light-emitting diode. Advertisement Article continues below this ad On Monday, GE announced that it ...

When replacing traditional, power-gulping light bulbs with environmentally friendly coiled fluorescent bulbs, the tree-hugger must move stealthily, being careful not to attract the attention of nearby ...

Part of our work here at Grist is to give advice to curious readers, and one thing we find ourselves saying a lot is, “Change those bulbs to CFLs!” But you can only socket to ’em so many times before ...

General Electric will stop producing compact fluorescent lights this year as the company founded by Thomas Edison shifts focus to more advanced bulbs. Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, are growing in ...