In this first episode of our broadband coverage, Ryssdal explores what a $42 billion investment in broadband from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law could mean for fiber-optic cable manufacturing ...

These fiber-optic cables transmit internet data through tiny beams of light, making it possible for us to be online. They run under oceans and across deserts. It is the largest network humans have ...

There are several kinds of internet technologies in use today, including satellite, DSL and fixed wireless, but none of them come close to cable and fiber when it comes to offering fast, reliable ...

This quirk of evolution marks the first time fiber-optic cable bundles have been spotted in a living organism, and it could inspire cheaper methods for manufacturing internet fiber-optic cables.

In a paper published in Nature Communications, she and her colleagues conclude that the structure of the heart cockle's shell operates as its own kind of fiber optic cables to channel light to the ...