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

Microsoft’s Project Silica can store 5TB of data on glass for 10,000 years, offering a durable, energy-free solution to prevent data rot.

Scientists at Microsoft Research in the United States have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading ...

A Microsoft Research study suggests glass blocks etched with lasers could provide enduring data archives ...

Microsoft’s Project Silica uses ultrafast lasers to store 4.84TB of data in small glass plates, preserving digital history for up to 10,000 years.

For this project, I'll be making radioactive uranium glass, which was very popular 100 years ago. Under a blacklight, the ...

Thousands of years from now, what will remain of our digital era? The ever-growing vastness of human knowledge is no longer ...

Improvements to data writing and reading techniques, alongside a new way to store data, mean the technology is more ...