Microwaves: The savior of university students who, like me, got off the meal plan and have no idea how to cook. The dim yellow glow and lackadaisical turn of the glass dish fill me with joy like ...

We take microwaves for granted nowadays, but they are still a relatively new technology that didn’t get popularized until the 1970s. They allow us to cook food with the press of a button and often ...

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.

You might love charred, broiled sirloin; crisp, oven-roasted veggies; or flaky, baked salmon, all of which generally require an oven. But when you are in a hurry or famished, you may turn to a faster ...

James Sayers, who was born in Corkey, Loughgiel in September 1912, worked in the development of centrimetric radar, now used in microwave ovens. He also worked on the Manhattan Project, which ...