It is not a big deal to change a compact fluorescent — screw the old one out and reverse the process to install a new one. But the same doesn't hold true for the old-fashioned tubular fluorescent.

Recently I found smoke pouring out of a compact fluorescent bulb (CFL) in a basement light. I turned off the light, removed the bulb and rushed it outside. An incandescent installed in the same ...

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 ...

The Plumen lightbulb designs shown here are just prototypes, and Hulger has put out an open call to bulb manufacturers to take their designs into production.

Compact fluorescent light bulbs save consumers money — and their use can help slow global warming. So why haven't they come into widespread use yet?