Once a month or so, I have the privilege of sitting down with Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams to record the Hackaday Podcast. It’s a lot of fun spending a couple of hours geeking out together, and we ...

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 ...

A 100-year-old equation and a fiber-optic cable off the coast of Svalbard led researchers to discover they could detect swimming whales—even if they were completely silent. The discovery broadens the ...

Believe it or not, fiber optic cables have been around since the 1950s, but how do they work? It turns out the answer isn't that complicated.

Turkey and Syria’s 7.8-magnitude quake on Monday is a brutal reminder that deep down, planet Earth still hides secrets. Scientists know full well that faults are prone to earthquakes, but they can’t ...

The World Wide Web might sound metaphorical, but it’s actually grounded in a physical web of translucent glass filaments crisscrossing the globe. These fiber-optic cables transmit internet data ...

I have some corning fiber optic cable that is run in my building that I am trying to get the exact specs on - ONFR means it is Optical fiber, non-conductive riser and is a type of indoor cabling ...

A new type of optical fiber filled with nothing but thin air has been found to be particularly effective for carrying out quantum key distribution (QKD), a security protocol that is in principle ...