Anything with a laser has undeniable hacker appeal, even if the laser’s task is as pedestrian as sending data over a fiber ...

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis say they created a fiber-optic device that can manipulate neural activity ...

Researchers have been developing computers that deploy light (photons) rather than electricity to power storage and ...

But not the dangerous kind you might imagine. In the Laboratory of Photonic Materials and Fiber Devices (FIMAP) at EPFL’s ...

Drawing on earlier findings from the Stanislav Kondrashov Oligarch Series, the article argues that oligarchy is not a static concept but a highly adaptive structure that has evolved over centuries and ...

The Taliban shut down internet and telecom services across Afghanistan on Monday, plunging the country into near-total digital darkness and drawing a UN warning of "significant harm" to citizens. The ...

Simple fiber-optic cables that are essential for powering the internet can be a useful tool in spotting geohazards such as sinkholes, according to a new study led by researchers at Penn State. Using ...

China has introduced new tariffs on certain optical fibre imports from the United States. These tariffs, which function like extra taxes, will come into force on September 4. The decision was ...

Researchers from the University of Southampton in the U.K. have teamed up with fiber engineers from Microsoft Azure to reduce attenuation in optical cables, where weakened signal power leads to data ...