Tiny circuits can go the distance. Researchers have mapped a noise-reducing magneto-optical response that occurs in fiber-optic communications, opening the door for new materials technologies. Optical ...

There are enough seismometers around these days to detect and locate nearly all earthquakes on land, except the most minuscule ones. The seafloor is another story. It’s expensive and difficult to ...

A new technique has reportedly been devised by scientists to make use of fiber optic networks as sensors for earthquake. This is the first time that a network is being used as a sensor for this ...

To use fiber optic cables this way, researchers partner with a company running the cables — in this case, Vero Fiber Networks — and attach a box containing a laser and a computer. The laser sends ...

As Verizon's large-scale program to install fiber-optic cable rolls across Northern Virginia, with it comes the possibility this summer of more churned-up yards and ruptured gas, electric and other ...

When it comes to earthquakes, the earlier the warning, the better. While current seismometers can pick up minor tremors with precision, they're relatively short-ranged and expensive, but now, a ...

Back in March, we noted that optical Thunderbolt 3 cables were starting to become available some four years after the standard's debut. Availability of these high-end optical cables has taken another ...

On Greenland’s coast, glaciers meet the sea in narrow fjords that have been carved over hundreds of thousands of years. Ice cliffs tower hundreds of meters high. At a glacier’s terminus, where those ...

A $5.89 million project that will add 35 cameras to U.S. 36 and connect fiber optic lines from Interstate 25 to Lyons via ...

Last November I bought an HP 42" LCD TV, but I can't get the optical audio out to work on it. I'm trying to hook my cable box up to my television's HDMI in and my TV's optical out to my receiver's ...