Deep in the ocean off the Pacific Northwest coast lies an underwater Internet cable spanning 500 miles. Called the North-East Pacific Time-Series Underwater Networked Experiment, or NEPTUNE. Deep in ...

A single underwater cable the size of a garden hose connected Tonga to the outside world—until a natural disaster struck. And ...

The ocean holds secrets we're only beginning to understand. Beneath the surface, endangered whales navigate an increasingly ...

What powers the global internet? The answer might surprise you: not satellites, but hundreds of thin cables that run along ...

Scientists from the University of Washington recently deployed a little over 1 mile of fiber-optic cable in the Salish Sea to test whether internet cables can monitor endangered orcas ...

The recent sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines, which caused natural gas to leak into the sea and atmosphere, highlights the threat posed by undersea attacks on critical infrastructure. In addition ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Over the weekend, Tonga’s Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai volcano ...

Thawing ice in the Arctic may open up new routes for internet cables that lie at the bottom of the ocean and carry most international data traffic. And more routes matter when underwater ...

The severing of a key subsea telecoms cable running under Europe’s Baltic Sea has caused a diplomatic incident this week, as both country’s politicians called the act “sabotage”—all while Russia, whom ...

Steve Brock, Ocean Networks Hawaii project manager, is pictured here talking to a crowd at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center during a presentation on the Hawaiian Islands Fiber Link project Tuesday ...

(TNS) — Residents of several North Slope and Northwest Alaska communities have been experiencing Internet and cell service interruptions this week caused by a cut to the subsea fiber-optic network.