Microwaving food is quick and convenient. Although there is some confusion regarding safety, microwave ovens may retain and ...

It may seem like a holdout against the solid-state world, but the vacuum-tube magnetron is still at the heart of every consumer microwave oven and many commercial ones used for cooking or drying.

There's a widely reported claim that you can't heat something hotter than the sun using sunlight: https://what-if.xkcd.com/145/ The idea seems to be that no (passive ...

Always check for a microwave safe mark before microwaving. In general, avoid placing anything made with metal or aluminum, styrofoam, or plastic.

A pocket-size gizmo that puts the "pop" in microwave popcorn could soon fuel particle accelerators of the future. The small but mighty device is a magnetron—a mashup of the words "magnetic" and ...

Researchers funded by the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research have invented a new type of magnetron that may be used to defeat enemy electronics. A magnetron is type of vacuum tube used as the ...

The Adventurer is a portable battery-powered microwave the size of a Thermos. Campers, hikers, and anyone else away from the grid can make a hot meal in minutes without a fire. Camp cooking could get ...

The year 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the home microwave oven. The ovens were first sold for home use by Amana Corporation in 1967, but they had actually been used for commercial food ...

THE origin and excellence of the Radiation Laboratory Series of monographs is now Well known, and can need little in the Way of introduction to the physicists and engineers on both sides of the ...