Project Silica is Microsoft's attempt at turning glass, not microchips, into a feasible medium for data storage with the use ...

A research team figured out a way to write data onto wafers of glass using lasers, and unlike, for example, a magnetic tape, ...

Execution of a non-binding commercial LOI with Jundu, Brazil's most established industrial silica sand producer for ...

Soon turned out, we had a heart of glass Opinion There is more joy in heaven over a single report of genuinely new technology than in a thousand desperate AI marketing pitches. What the angels will ...

Humans are generating more data than ever before. While much of these data do not need to be stored long-term, some – such as ...

"Glass" has a unique and distinct meaning in physics—one that refers not just to the transparent material we associate with window glass. Instead, it refers to any system that looks solid but is not ...

Microsoft's Project Silica has stored 4.84TB in borosilicate glass with a 10,000-year lifespan, but slow 66 Mb/s write speeds ...

The researchers believe the geraisites’ crater may lie in the São Francisco Craton, a region in the eastern part of South America’s continental crust. Future surveys are needed in order to detect ...

You see it all the time in science fiction: the heroes find old data, read it, and learn how to save the day. But how realistic is that? Forget aliens. Could you read a stack of punch cards or a ...

There are only a few known fields of tektites in the entire world, and scientists just found another in Brazil.

Scientists from Ohio State University have shown that laser 3D printing could be used ...

A material that got its start in the Arizona desert is showing up in science journals with astounding reports that it could ...