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Lighting technology: Time to change the bulb

The incandescent light bulb is being phased out, but what will replace it? Stefano Tonzani investigates the technologies that are vying for our sockets.

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Stefano Tonzani is an associate editor at Nature.

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Tonzani, S. Lighting technology: Time to change the bulb. Nature 459, 312–314 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/459312a

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