Mellors and Kilb are seismologists with Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. Mellors lives in University City, Kilb in Rancho Peñasquitos. Rodríguez ...

In 1966, physics Nobel Prize winner Charles Kao (the 'father' of fiber optic communications) discovered optical fiber's potential for high-speed data communication. Since then, extensive research ...

The latest Google Doodle celebrates what would have been the 88th birthday of the late Charles K. Kao, the pioneering engineer behind fiber optic communication widely used by the internet today.

For those of you that don't know who The Engineer Guy is, his name is Bill Hammack and he's made it his business to pull back the shroud of mystery from the world of science and engineering. He's done ...

Light powers everything from communications to sensing, yet even tiny imperfections can scatter it and weaken signals. To address this, a team led by the University of Bath—working with the University ...