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

Borosilicate glass offers extreme stability; Microsoft’s accelerated aging experiments suggest the data would be stable for ...

For the demonstration in the paper, the team inscribed 301 voxel layers, but the glass chip has the capacity to store 4.8 ...

What if the smallest molecule of life became the ultimate medium for digital storage? Faced with the avalanche of data flooding the planet, researchers are exploring the physical structure of ...

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 ...

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

A GitHub project has enabled encoding files as lossless video for YouTube storage, gaining 367 stars despite Terms of Service violations and account termination risk.

Microsoft has advanced its Project Silica to the point where it can store data for up to 10,000 years on the type of ...

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

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.

Microsoft says glass data storage can preserve data for 10,000 years, using lasers to write voxels inside silica plates. It’s built for archives, but scaling write speed and reader access remain big ...

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