Flickering candle LEDs are seemingly everywhere these days, and like all fads, someone has to take a very close look at the engineering behind them. [cpldcpu] had earlier taken a look at the ...

If you’re trying to turn your house into a haunted mansion this Halloween season, don’t buy those antique oil lanterns for your front stoop just yet (even though we appreciate the desire for ...

Candle clocks were once an easy way to build a clock without using complex mechanical devices: just observe how quickly a thin candle burns down, mark an identical candle with periodic gradations, and ...

The 19th-century physicist Michael Faraday was known not only for his seminal experimental contributions to electromagnetism but also for his public speaking. His annual Christmas lectures at the ...

As if a candlelit dinner wasn’t romantic enough. Scientists have shown that a flickering flame is studded with millions of tiny diamonds. Roughly 1.5million of the twinkling gems are created every ...

A white wax candle stands in a glass container on a bookshelf in our family room. It is 12 by 3 1/2 inches and is the kind often seen in churches, chapels, funeral parlor-crematoriums, and homes like ...