More than a century before graphene was isolated in a modern lab, Thomas Edison may have been unknowingly making the wonder ...

According to new research from Rice University, while Edison’s goal was simply to create a longer-lasting electric lamp, the ...

What do Thomas Edison and 2010 Nobel Prize in physics winners Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim have in common? According ...

A collaboration between mechanical engineers from the US and Korea has resulted in the creation of the world's thinnest light bulb, which is made from wonder material graphene. While we've seen ...

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 ...