A Canadian telecommunications company is implementing plans to lay a fiber optic cable from London to Tokyo by way of the U.S. and Canadian arctic, and is readying summer marine surveys to map exactly ...

Fundamental ball-screw technology hasn’t changed much since 1929 when Rudolph G. Boehm patented a device he called an “anti-friction” nut. The ability to smoothly and precisely move heavy loads is a ...

Nome’s coast will get a little more crowded this summer, but it’s not dredging or your standard drilling that will add to the offshore activity. “We’re not drilling for something, we’re drilling a ...

Monitoring seismic activity all over the world is an important task, but one that requires equipment to be at the site it’s measuring — difficult in the middle of the ocean. But new research from ...

Although fiber optic internet cable has many advantages over metal cable, it frequently has to be distributed underground – this limits its usability. Facebook, however, has developed a robot that ...

MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Sho-Me Technologies of Marshfield, Mo., has contracted to lay fiber-optic cables in Marble Hill sometime in the next three weeks. Sho-Me Technologies is a subsidiary of Sho-Me ...

Google is ready to move forward with rollout of fiber-optic cable and supporting infrastructure in Kansas City, MO, and Kansas City, KS. The project, called Google Fiber, will see thousands of miles ...