More than a century after their invention, tungsten filaments—the coiled metal wires at the heart of many incandescent light bulbs—continue to be popular. This is despite the growing market for LED ...

Photonic crystals are nanoscopic structures designed to channel light of specific wavelengths while blocking other wavelengths. This ability to control and filter light with great efficiency makes ...

Over on YouTube [Drake] from the [styropyro] channel investigates what happens when you take an enormous tungsten ...

Tungsten-filament bulbs — the most widely used light source in the world — burn hands if unscrewed while lit. The bulbs are infamous for generating more heat than light. Now a microscopic tungsten ...

As inventors in the early 1900s vied to devise the best incandescent lightbulb, tungsten won out over carbon for making filaments. Today, however, there’s a form of carbon that was unknown back ...

Ottawa's planned ban on incandescent light bulbs will have no impact on Canada's resurgent tungsten mining business, industry players say, because lighting makes up such a small proportion of the ...

A microscopic 3-D tungsten photonic crystal lattice (TPCL) developed by Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, NM) has demonstrated the potential to transmute the majority of wasted infrared ...

Qatar General Electricity & Water Corporation (Kahramaa) on Sunday urged customers to help reduce electricity consumption by replacing tungsten lamps at home and other buildings with energy-saving LED ...

Canada’s biggest tungsten miner says it’s not worried about an Ontario government ban on incandescent light bulbs, to take effect by 2012. Stephen Leahy, CEO of Vancouver-based North American Tungsten ...

PHOENIX -- Saying they were striking a blow for individual rights, a Senate panel voted Tuesday to keep old-fashioned tungsten-filament light bulbs legal in Arizona long after they're banned by ...