[Curious Droid] is back with a history lesson on one of the most important inventions of the 20th century: The cavity magnetron. Forged in the fighting of World War II, the cavity magnetron was the ...

Jefferson Lab Senior SRF Accelerator Physicist Haipeng Wang displays the core of a cavity magnetron during an April 2024 lab tour. NEWPORT NEWS, VA - A pocket-size gizmo that puts the “pop” in ...

In 1940, England was in a dangerous predicament. The Nazi war machine had been sweeping across Europe for almost two years, claiming countries in a crescent from Norway to France and cutting off the ...

The year 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the home microwave oven. The ovens were first sold for home use by Amana Corporation in 1967, but they had actually been used for commercial food ...

In the somber wake of recent attacks in Paris, three World War II allies honored decades of defense-critical scientific collaboration-and re-affirmed their partnership for years to come. On Nov. 17, ...