Fiber-optic cable is made in an almost incomprehensibly precise way. ... The fat tube certainly did not look like glass to me. “So now we go to the next step, consolidation. ...

Though the field is still in its infancy, DAS could tap into the fiber optic cables buried under our feet as a sprawling, ... A New Obesity Pill May Burn Fat Without Suppressing Appetite.

The World Wide Web might sound metaphorical, but it’s actually grounded in a physical web of translucent glass filaments crisscrossing the globe. These fiber-optic cables transmit internet data ...

Thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables, already in place across California, can shake up the study of earthquakes. New research out of Caltech used a section of telecommunication fiber to sense ...

These fiber-optic cables could also serve as underwater earthquake detectors, researchers report online June 14 in Science. “It’s a very exciting proposition,” says Barbara Romanowicz, ...