The use of communicating via light undoubtedly goes back many centuries. The Chinese and Native Americans were the first to use smoke signals for long distance communications, a type of optical ...

In the early days of fiber optics, telephone cable repairmen crouched in tents to splice cables under a microscope. It wasn’t the best working environment: Airborne dust landed on the severed ends of ...

Since optical fiber has the characteristic that 'light reflects inside as it travels,' even the slightest misalignment is not permitted when connecting optical fibers. For this reason, a fusion ...

Some Samsung TVs come with a system called One Connect, where all external cabling is connected to a separate box so that only one small signal cable goes to the TV. In some versions, the cable ...

Analysis of the human genome has revealed that up to 60% of genes express multiple mRNA isoforms via alternative splicing 1,2. In several cases, human genes can produce hundreds or thousands of mRNA ...