Tiny fiber-optic cables on seabed can do a lot more than you can imagine as researchers have found that these underwater ...

A 100-year-old equation and a fiber-optic cable off the coast of Svalbard led researchers to discover they could detect swimming whales—even if they were completely silent. The discovery broadens the ...

By sending laser pulses down a fiber optic cable under the sea floor, the researchers study permafrost in the seafloor. Credit: Sandia National Laboratories Permafrost and bouncing light Like leftover ...

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 ...

Once a month or so, I have the privilege of sitting down with Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams to record the Hackaday Podcast. It’s a lot of fun spending a couple of hours geeking out together, and we ...

Every year, about 20,000 earthquakes are registered around the world; this means roughly 55 every day, shaking Earth's crust (via USGS). Sixteen of these yearly-registered earthquakes are more ...

Believe it or not, fiber optic cables have been around since the 1950s, but how do they work? It turns out the answer isn't ...

The same fiber optic networks that provide internet can simultaneously act as earthquake sensors, as demonstrated in a new study. In California, thousands of miles of fiber optic cables crisscross the ...