You might think the radiation generated inside your microwave oven kills any bacteria within its stainless steel walls. You'd be wrong though. Microbiologists at the University of Valencia took ...

We've all been there! While there isn't a hard rule on how to clean the inside of a microwave, it's wise to give it a wipe down once a week — or when there are a lot of splatters (we're looking ...

Fair warning: if you’re going to try to mold uranium glass in a microwave kiln, you might want to not later use the oven for preparing food. Just a thought. The powdered uranium glass then goes ...

In 1945, Percy Spencer, an American self-taught engineer, was working in a lab testing magnetrons, the high-powered vacuum tubes inside radars ... after, the microwave oven was born.