Have you ever wondered how an email sent from New York arrives in Sydney in mere seconds, or how you can video chat with someone on the other side of the globe with barely a hint of delay? Behind ...

What powers the global internet? The answer might surprise you. It's not satellites, but hundreds of thin cables that run along the ocean floor. The roots of this crucial and often fragile oceanic ...

Beneath the ocean’s surface, hidden from view, lies a global nervous system. Thousands of miles of armored cables carry internet traffic, financial transactions, and military communications between ...

Imagine that the wires to your house not only have to withstand high electrical current flow, weather and wind, but also salt water, ocean currents, temperature changes and large movements. This is ...

Deep under the sea, a wide network of cables crisscrosses the ocean floor, keeping the internet and other telecommunications online. While these cables have a big job to do, researchers want to make ...

I bet you imagine the internet as a magical cloud floating wirelessly between satellites and Wi-Fi routers. Nope. It’s mostly underwater. Nearly all of your “in the cloud” traffic actually travels ...

Houthi rebels in the Red Sea have been preying on freighter ships since the war between Israel and Hamas broke out last year, but now appear to be turning their sights toward a new target: internet ...

Undersea cables face more risk from anchors and fishing than espionage or sabotage. Man-made damage accounts for more than two-thirds of cable faults.