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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...