When the microwave oven started to gain popularity in the 60s and 70s, supporters and critics alike predicted that it would usher in the end of cooking as we knew it. Obviously that never quite ...

Photonic computing represents not a radical departure from familiar territory, but rather a natural extension along the electromagnetic spectrum. The transition from gigahertz to hundreds of terahertz ...

Thanks to their agility and resilience, software-defined radios can provide a capable first line of defense against threats ...

Christmas lights may be crippling your WiFi, or at least that was the takeaway from headlines circulating earlier this week. The claim isn’t simply fodder for the #WarOnChristmas debate. It’s based on ...

The US Navy and US Air Force have tapped Raytheon to design, build and test two high-power microwave antenna systems. These will be used in field-grade directed energy weapons to counter aerial drones ...

Whether we know it or not, we encounter all kinds of electromagnetic waves daily. Some of these come from the microwave, sun, radio, and even at the doctor's office. Most are harmless, but if you're ...

One of the landmark discoveries of 19 th century physics was the realisation that electricity, magnetism and light are all connected. Experiments had already shown that the movement of electrical ...