If your station uses 2 GHz ENG frequencies A08 or A09, in the 2450 to 2483.5 MHz range, you are probably aware of the potential for microwave oven interference. Researchers at the University of ...

NEWPORT NEWS, VA - 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 ...

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 ...

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.