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Scientists have created a tiny cable — much thinner than a human hair — through which they can transmit visible light, potentially paving the way for improvements in solar energy, computing and medicine.

The achievement, described in research published on Monday in the journal Applied Physics Letters, involves a re-imagining of the coaxial cable — that commonplace conduit of cable television, telephone and Internet service — on a minuscule scale.

(from eWeek, Tiny New Cable May Spur Big Technological Advances)