A researcher lowers a fibre-optic cable 1,500 metres into the borehole in or-der to record signals from inside the ice stream ...

When people think about fiber optic cables, it's usually about how they're used for telecommunications and accessing the ...

An optical fiber (or fibre in British English) is a flexible, transparent fiber made by drawing glass (silica ... and at higher bandwidths (data transfer rates) than electrical cables. Fibers are used ...

These bundled 'fiber optic cables' project images through the shell," the researchers wrote. "Heart cockles have evolved transparent windows in their shells with what is, to our knowledge ...

Fiber is also used to replace copper cable for LAN backbones. An optical fiber is constructed of a transparent core made of nearly pure silicon dioxide (SiO2), through which the light travels.