fiber optics
Here's a Giant Glowing 3D-Printed Fruit Fly Brain
MIT researcher Nicolas Aimon has 3D printed a beautiful and accurate light-up model of a fruit fly's tiny brain.
How Hurricane Sandy Pulled the Plug on Landlines
Storm battered Mantoloking, New Jersey, and Fire Island, New York, might very well see the death of the landline sooner than the rest of us.
Chinese Law Now Says Every New Home Must Come With a Fiber Optic Connection
Forty million people in China will have access to fiber optic connections by 2015.
Flying Corpses and Buried Fiber Optics: Two Beautifully Similar Paths
Maybe you've seen this photo that's been spinning around the Internet for a few years purporting to show the uncanny similarity between individual mouse-brain neurons and a model image of the universe. Here it is: !{width:584px}http://www.viceland...
The Internet in Your Hands
A lot of people are talking about “the Internet” right now. You know, the series of tubes? That one. Last week, noisy and widespread website blackouts had supporters of SOPA and PIPA, two toxic anti-piracy bills that had been cruising through...
Designing the Traffic Signals of the Quantum Internet
As tech goes, quantum computing and the quantum internet are still fairly theoretical: a great idea with tons of research and resources behind it.