U ndersea fiber-optic cables, which stretch over 1.2 million kilometers (750,000 miles) across the ocean floor, are being used in a new way for anti-submarine warfare. A developing technology called ...

Have you ever wondered how an email sent from New York arrives in Sydney in mere seconds, or how you can video chat with someone on the other side of the globe with barely a hint of delay? Behind ...

Two critical communication lines linking NATO countries were suddenly cut—one between Finland and Central Europe, the other between Sweden and Lithuania. With 99% of global Internet traffic relying on ...

In January, sea ice severed a fiber-optic cable running along the floor of the Beaufort Sea several miles off the North Slope. The line is a key piece of Northwest Alaska’s broadband infrastructure, ...

Google said on Thursday it will build a fiber optic cable to connect Africa and Australia. Named Umoja (a Swahili word meaning “unity”), one end of the cable will start in Kenya and pass through ...

One of the biggest challenges for earthquake early warning systems (EEW) is the lack of seismic stations located offshore of heavily populated coastlines, where some of the world's most seismically ...