On a cloudy day in late October, Alyssa Shiel crouched on a narrow strip of grass between the curb and the sidewalk of a neighborhood in inner Southeast Portland, plunging a small syringe-like probe ...

Forecasting earthquakes presents a serious challenge on land, but in the oceans that cover around 70% of Earth's surface it ...

History was unmade last year, as engineers began the massive project of ripping the first-ever transoceanic fiber-optic cable from the ocean floor. Just don’t mention sharks.

Sport Oregon welcomes applications for 'She Flies' initiative to boost girls in sports The Sport Oregon Foundation is expanding opportunities for girls and women across the state through its "She ...

Deep under the sea, a wide network of cables crisscrosses the ocean floor, keeping the internet and other telecommunications online. While these cables have a big job to do, researchers want to make ...

Boston College Professor of Biology Philip J. Landrigan, M.D., founding director of the Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good, joined a roundtable discussion on February 5 that sought ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass.—The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health said it is investigating worker safety around lead-sheathed telecom cables, opening up a “health hazard evaluation” in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Authorities are investigating damage to an undersea telecommunications cable in the Gulf of Finland that occurred early on ...

A Finnish newspaper has reported growing security concerns in the country over the Chinese ownership of a firm that operates underwater data cables in the Baltic Sea. Helsingin Sanomat reported that ...