In our era of intense innovation-based global competition, policymakers increasingly look for demonstrable connections between public investment in research and tangible economic and security benefits ...

If you stop and think about it, when Edison invented the light bulb he also had to invent the socket. Edison was a master innovator, but it must have become clear to him pretty quickly that continued ...

Each week, we highlight a design or product innovation that you might not have heard about yet. Many of them come through your submissions (here's the form), but this week's idea came to us from our ...

Thomas Edison's 1879 incandescent lamp. (The Associated Press) For the past few years we've all been encouraged to embrace compact fluorescent (CFL) and light-emitting diode (LED) light bulbs because ...

Maxwell Ryan, founder of the popular home decor website www.apartmenttherapy.com, suggests swapping your incandescent bulbs when they burn out for the new Cree brand LED bulbs. “They can last longer ...