From The Pennsylvania State University DNA, the genetic blueprints in every living organism, is nature’s most efficient storage mechanism, capable of storing about 215 million GB of data/gram.That storage capacity, if applied to electronics, could enable significantly more efficient data centers, speedier data processing and the ability to process far more complicated data. The trick […]

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By Eric Stann, University of Missouri Around the world, scientists are exploring an unexpected solution to the growing data crisis: storing digital information in synthetic DNA. The idea is simple but powerful — DNA is one of the most compact, durable information systems on Earth.But one issue has held the field back. Once data is […]

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Ceramic Data Solutions GmbH, Gmunden, Austria, has been assigned a patent (12594629) developed by Kunze; Martin, Gmunden, Austria, and Pflaum; Christian, Bernried, Germany, for “method for long-term storage of information and storage medium.“ The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The present invention relates to an information storage […]

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Blog by Richard Black, partner research manager, Microsoft Research, pub February 18, 2026 Summary: Microsoft Research publishes breakthrough in Nature on glass-based data storage that could preserve information for 10,000 years New technique extends technology from expensive fused silica to ordinary borosilicate glass found in kitchen cookware Innovations enable faster parallel writing, simplified readers (one camera instead of […]

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