Discover the fascinating science behind microwave ovens in this video as MinuteFood explains how microwaves heat food using ...

Microwave ovens are everywhere, and at the heart of them is a magnetron — a device that creates microwaves. [DiodeGoneWild] tore one apart to show us what was inside and how it works. If you decide to ...

In a story ripped right out of Terminator, but with the slightly funnier twist that the killer robot is a microwave oven, one self-professed “Mad Scientist” is asking a very important question: how ...

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.

Jefferson Lab Senior SRF Accelerator Physicist Haipeng Wang displays the core of a cavity magnetron during an April 2024 lab tour. NEWPORT NEWS, VA - A pocket-size gizmo that puts the “pop” in ...

This article was produced for RFHIC by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine's board of editors. RFHIC's co-founder and CEO, David Cho (left), and RFHIC's co-founder ...

In 1967, Amana Corporation introduced the first tabletop-sized microwave oven for consumer use. Since then, the microwave has become an indispensable small appliance in virtually every home in the ...