Researchers use mini plasma explosions to encode the equivalent of two million books into a coaster-sized device. The method ...

Project Silica promises to store data for millennia while facing impossible speeds and impractical costs for real use ...

Borosilicate glass, the same material used in lab equipment and kitchen cookware, can encode data using femtosecond lasers at densities and lifespans no existing archival medium can match, according ...

Encoding information in DNA has long seemed like a promising way to secure data for the long term, but so far it has required an expert touch. It turns out that you don’t need to be a scientist to ...

For roughly a decade, Microsoft has been perfecting a high-density storage technology that uses glass, lasers, and cameras, ...