Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Since it tends to be associated with the shaga- delic 1970s, it is hard to believe the lava lamp is celebrating its 40th birthday. But although it seems somewhat younger, the ultimate retro “light ...

If we got a mobile phone charm for every phone charm we ever saw, then we'd have a lot of phone charms. Most don't pass the Crave test, which is why you never hear about them. This one from Mathmos, ...

Call them ’60s relics or hippy home accessories, lava lamps have been casting their dim but groovy light on interiors for half a century, having hit British shelves 50 years ago on Tuesday. A British ...

Science Siblings Paige and Adam Jacobson are giving us a new science experiment to do over winter break, make a homemade lava lamp. First you’ll take your baking soda and pour it in the bottom of your ...

When Imre Jánosi’s teenage daughter asked him how her new lava lamp worked, she probably expected a quick explanation. But her innocent question sent Jánosi, a physicist at Loránd Eötvös University in ...

In the eyes of Soap Lake’s boosters, a warm, red glow colors the water of this small town’s lake. It’s not a dramatic sunset they’re picturing. It’s the electric shine of a 50-foot-tall lava lamp that ...

SOAP LAKE, Wash. The effort to build a 60-foot tall lava lamp in Soap Lake is slowly gaining momentum again. The community has raised about $200,000 for the project. It is estimated $1 million will be ...

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 ...