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Underpinning the shortage are rising prices of some of the critical components that go into fiber-optic technology, in which light is carried along flexible fibers with a glass core. There has ...

To build better fiber optic cables, ask a clam Heart cockles have shells with built-in skylights to let in light for symbiotic algae. Date: December 2, 2024 Source: Duke University Summary: Since ...

Hundreds of miles of new fiber-optic cable about as thick as a garden hose are lighting 21st-century ambitions from one end of Maryland to the other. Economic development officials imagine business… ...

This creates something akin to a fiber-optic cable made of air: Instead of a transparent core covered in plastic cladding that guides light in conventional fiber optics, the dense air acts as the ...

The new study, published Tuesday in “Nature,” examined the light signatures traveling through a stretch of fiber optic cable in the Eastern Sierra Nevada during the magnitude-6 Antelope Valley ...

The interrogator sends light pulses to the fiber-optic cable at regular intervals. Sounds or vibrations can disrupt the cable and the pulses passing through it.

These cables are used for telecommunications, but they can be repurposed for sensing earthquakes and volcanic eruptions because the ground’s movement slightly disrupts the light traveling ...

A heart cockle shell has been found to let in light through a design that resembles fiber optic cables. This could inspire everything from helping coral survive to designing new camera lenses.