Russia has never officially acknowledged having Novichok, but documents found in the massive leak of State
Department cables published by Wikileaks
show Great Britain and its allies worried about the deadly nerve agent for years.
Scientists at the
Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have
shown for the first time that dark fiber — the vast network of unused fiber - optic
cables installed throughout the country and the world — can be used as sensors for detecting earthquakes, the presence of groundwater, changes in permafrost conditions, and a variety of other subsurface activity.