The timing for planting bulbs depends entirely on when they’re meant to flower. Summer-flowering bulbs like dahlias and cannas do best when planted in spring, while spring-flowering bulbs such as ...

A typical light bulb can last about a year. The one hanging from the ceiling at Fire Station No. 6 in Livermore has lasted more than a century. The Centennial Light Bulb, as it’s known, has been ...

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In every home I've had in the past decade, I've installed smart light bulbs. Over and over again, between four different apartments and one townhouse, I was impressed by how easy smart lights were to ...

When people name the most important inventions in history, light bulbs are usually on the list. They were much safer than earlier light sources, and they made more activities, for both work and play, ...

I’m about 100 yards into my first stroll into the Albany Bulb, and I already feel like I’m in a Terry Gilliam movie. Less than half a century ago, this was an industrial landfill, a dumping ground for ...

To look at the Centennial Bulb, you might not think there was anything so special about it. There it dangles, from the ceiling of a fire station at 4550 East Avenue in California's Livermore. A bare ...

Smart bulbs offer you the ability to control lights using your voice (with the aid of a smart speaker or your phone), to schedule them to turn on and off (for convenience, or to make it look like ...

There's nothing like coming home after a long day to the warm, glowing welcome of your front porch. Less enjoyable: being assaulted by the insects that are fluttering around the porch lights, just ...

If you love to share things on social media, you are probably very aware of GIFs and have either received or shared one (or a thousand!) with others. Most likely, you know that the images are called ...

The transition to LED lights started with a law signed by George W. Bush. No matter what Trump says, factories can’t easily go back to making old bulbs even if they wanted to. In 2019, when the first ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published in December 2020. It’s a mild, softly glowing December morning in Albany, and I’m at the most beautiful landfill in the world. Well, a former ...