A new desk lamp is taking over from the lava lamp -- by replacing the boring old wax lava with interactive magnetic fluid. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as ...

Fifty years ago, Edward Craven Walker turned a neat idea into a global phenomenon, making the world a way more psychedelic place along the way. In September 1963, Walker was inspired by an oil and ...

Lava Lite in Elk Grove Village is one more chapter in the continuing story of that crazy piece of furniture from the days of the Beatles and psychedelic parties of rising and falling wax in colored ...