The more than 1.2 million km of fiber-optic cables that crisscross the planet carry the world's phone calls, internet signals and data. But this summer, researchers published the eerie sounds of blue ...

As dawn broke over San Juan Island, a team of scientists stood on the deck of a barge and unspooled over a mile of fiber-optic cable into the frigid waters of the Salish Sea. Working by headlamp, they ...

Since the first fiber optic cables rolled out in the 1970s, they've become a major part of everything from medical devices to high-speed internet and cable TV. But as it turns out, one group of marine ...

Artist rendition of fiber optics close up - Sarti art/Shutterstock Fiber optic cables, the ingenious cables that we rely on to provide the internet, are incredibly powerful when it comes to carrying ...

Some Optimum customers in Georgetown were without internet service Monday morning after the company said criminals damaged ...

For some, switching out equipment from the cable company is simply a sign of progress. For others in the Lehigh Valley, it could mean uprooting several years worth of wiring around the house — ...

INTO LAW EARLIER THIS YEAR. HAPPENING TODAY, TWO FIBER INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS WILL BE ABLE TO START WORK AGAIN IN ALBUQUERQUE. THE CITY ISSUED A STOP WORK ORDER EARLIER THIS YEAR FOR EASY FIBER ...

A new type of optical fiber filled with nothing but thin air has been found to be particularly effective for carrying out quantum key distribution (QKD), a security protocol that is in principle ...

A 100-year-old equation and a fiber-optic cable off the coast of Svalbard led researchers to discover they could detect ...