The electrician who walks around the office all day with a cart full of bulbs may be eager to try out Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp.'s new fluorescent-lighting tester, which combines bulb and ballast ...

“Dear Mr. Fact: Is it true that you can test a microwave to see if it is leaking radioactivity by holding a florescent light bulb in front of it and if it glows, it leaks? If not, is there any way to ...

FORT WORTH (CBS 11 NEWS) - Everybody knows that one good way to prevent a sunburn is to stay inside where you're safe from the sun's ultraviolet rays, right? Well that may not be true if your home is ...

A light source consisting of a long glass tube containing mercury in a partial vacuum. Available in many lengths and several diameters, the tube is lined with a fluorescent phosphor. When the mercury ...

Q. The bulbs in a fluorescent lighting fixture above the laundry area in our basement just burned out. My husband and I are not in agreement about whether to leave this fixture on all the time or not.

CBS evening news associate producer Michelle Peltier posts a fact sheet to go along with reporter Daniel Sieberg's Evening News piece on the growing popularity of fluorescent bulbs. (CBS/The Early ...