If you’ve ever seen those cheap LED fiber optic wands at the dollar store, you’ve probably just thought of them as a simple novelty. However, as [Ancient] shows us, you can turn them into a ...

A thin strand of glass designed for light transmission. A single hair-thin optical fiber is capable of transmitting trillions of bits per second. In addition to their huge transmission capacity ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Since the first fiber optic cables rolled out in the 1970s ... with thin plates of aragonite stacked in different orientations, “kind of like fancy brickwork,” McCoy said. But within ...