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.

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 ...

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