The microwave oven traces its origins not to culinary innovation but to wartime radar research. During World War II, scientists developed the cavity magnetron, a device capable of generating powerful ...

Researchers aim to transmute long-lived nuclear waste into shorter-lived materials while generating additional carbon-free ...

Abstract: We present a novel method to detect underground cavities using cross-borehole ground-penetrating radar (GPR). We model the propagation of a GPR signal across a cavity and find that the ...

Let’s talk about how microwaves actually work, which we have a whole video about, but here’s the tldw version: this thing, a “magnetron”, sends out relatively low-frequency electromagnetic waves known ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Closed microwave on kitchen counter - New Africa/Shutterstock When you stand inside your kitchen and look around, you can spot ...