The Age of AI will rely on massive volumes of data that can be easily stored and retrieved—and bioscience may have an ingenious solution.

Shakespeare’s entire catalog of sonnets and eight of his tragedies, all of Wikipedia’s English-language pages, and one of the first movies ever made: scientists have been able to fit the contents of ...

DNA can be used to reliably store a vast amount of digital data. However, retrieval or manipulation of specific data encoded in these molecules has hitherto been difficult. Now, researchers from the ...

Our increasingly digitized world has a data storage problem. Hard drives and other storage media are reaching their limits, ...

When the Voyager spacecrafts launched in 1977, ready to study the outer limits of our solar system, they brought with them two golden phonograph records that each contained an assemblage of sounds and ...

Humanity could be brought back from extinction in millions of years after a person’s genome was etched on a crystal and stored in an Austrian cave. The 25mm-long 5D memory crystal includes the DNA ...

Microsoft has partnered with a San Francisco-based company to encode information on synthetic DNA to test its potential as a new medium for data storage. Twist Bioscience will provide Microsoft with ...

Scientists have now figured out how to use DNA to create a device that will store an almost unlimited amount of data. This new DNA-based storage device is ...