The big idea: The same fiber-optic cables we use to get online are being repurposed to detect earthquakes and study the ocean floor. The technique has been used to find a previously unknown cluster of ...

he Earth-Ocean-Atmosphere-Space observatory concept. The upper-right-hand globe shows the extensive network of existing Fiber-Optic (FO) cables (yellow lines). The lower-left zoomed inset illustrates ...

Steve Brock, Ocean Networks Hawaii project manager, is pictured here talking to a crowd at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center during a presentation on the Hawaiian Islands Fiber Link project Tuesday ...

“To my knowledge, this is the first example of this technique used under the sea,” says geoscientist Philippe Jousset of the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, who has used fiber to sense ...

Many miles off the western coast of the Americas, an undersea cable connects Los Angeles, California to Valparaiso, Chile. Stretched end-to-end, it’s equal to four-fifths of the Earth’s diameter. The ...

Monitoring seismic activity all over the world is an important task, but one that requires equipment to be at the site it’s measuring — difficult in the middle of the ocean. But new research from ...

Scientists say they have identified an ocean sponge living in the darkness of the deep sea that grows thin glass fibers capable of transmitting light better than industrial fiber-optic cables used for ...