For anyone mildly interested in exoplanets, you are familiar with the term ‘Goldilocks Zone’. This is the region of space around a star where conditions are ‘just right’ for liquid water to exist on ...

A semiconductor diode that modulates light from a laser that is separate from it, but may be fabricated on the same wafer. Turning the current on causes absorption of the light. See fiber optics ...

THE European Union: tougher and less absorbent than ever! It sounds like communist-era toilet paper. But that is roughly the slogan that the EU is now adopting. Its latest intellectual fad is the ...