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Smart Boulders Designed to Move with Seafloor Avalanches to Assess Cable Routes

Robotic sensors disguised as boulders, or ‘smart boulders’, have been used to measure the initiation and evolution of huge seafloor avalanches for the first time, revealing some surprising findings that will help inform where best to lay the seafloor cables that keep the internet running. Published this month in the journal Nature Communications, this research shows that submarine avalanches of

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