Anyone remember bubble lights? The News On 6's Rick Wells does from when he was a kid. His aunt had an entire tree decorated with them. He reports a Tulsa man also has a bubble light collection. Scott ...

Bubble lights are mesmerizing things to watch, up there with lava lamps as one of the nicer aesthetic creations of the mid-20th century. [Tech Ingredients] decided to head into the lab to whip up some ...

Humanity has been leaking radio noise into the cosmos for just over a century, and those signals now form a vast, expanding ...

George Nelson’s 1952 Bubble lamps are icons of Midcentury Modernism, arguably some of the most enduring designs of the era. But now that famed illumination, so soft and diffuse, finds itself in the ...

Oh, Michiganders — you really are a quirky and lovable bunch. You drink pop instead of soda, you invented Superman ice cream, and your state police cars have a unique feature straight out of the '50s.

The journey of Earth’s radio signals began over a century ago, following the first intentional broadcast by Reginald Aubrey Fessenden in 1906. These signals have been traveling across the Milky Way ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn commission. Read our full commerce guidelines here. Bubble homeware has become the latest home decor trend for 2023, and we can totally see why ...

Apparently, decorating Christmas trees with little vials of methyl chloride was extremely popular in the 50s and 60s. Because methyl chloride has a low boiling point, a small bulb can generate enough ...

With a twinkle in his eye, Don Spritzer pointed to a display of vintage Christmas lights, explaining the history of the various bulbs and how each one worked. “I’ve been fascinated with Christmas ...

Where do we exist, exactly? What’s our cosmic address? Where are we? You may already know that the Sun sits in a spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy called the Orion Arm. But did you know that we—and ...

The Earth sits in a 1,000-light-year-wide void surrounded by thousands of young stars — but how did those stars form? In a paper appearing Wednesday in Nature, astronomers at the Center for ...