Scientists have conclusively proven that microwaves suck, while also solving a major issue that comes with heating liquids in the microwave. A special glass with a silver ring can heat liquids more ...
A Vox reader asks: Are microwaves actually bad for you, your health, and the food you eat? I think anybody who’s ever “nuked” some leftovers or a ready-made meal has pondered the same question. Nuke?
Have you ever hesitated before pressing "Start" on your microwave? Thought about whether your vegetables lose their vitamins, or whether that bowl of soup suddenly becomes radioactive? You are not ...
Video of plasma created by irradiation in a commercial microwave oven of whole (uncut) grapes forming a dimer on a watch glass. Credit: Hamza K. Khattak, Pablo Bianucci, and Aaron D. Slepkov, via PNAS ...
The idea of seeing something without actually looking at it might sound crazy. After all, how do you see something if you aren't actually looking at it? Well, the basic idea behind this has been ...
• Ever see those YouTube videos where a grape explodes in a microwave? Physicist Aaron Slepkov did. • His team set out to figure out the true reason for the plasma fire phenomenon by testing not only ...
Time and frequency standards are a key part of technologies we have come to rely on in our daily lives, from GPS navigation and cellphone networks to the electrical power grid. The importance of these ...
A mug of water warms inside of a microwave. A new study weighs in on the microwave versus kettle tea debate by analyzing the uneven heat distribution of liquids heated in microwave ovens. Last month, ...
Yahoo answers tells me I shouldn’t put snails in the microwave, but this paper tells me otherwise: Galindo LA, Puillandre N, Strong EE, Bouchet P (2014) Using microwaves to prepare gastropods for DNA ...
To improve object identification and speed in fields where both are critical -- such as autonomous vehicles, security screening and motion sensing -- engineers have developed a method to identify ...
Scientists from the University of Electronic Science & Technology of China are spilling some tea in a new paper published in the journal AIP Advances. In the study, they settle a seminal debate once ...