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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

"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 ...

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New research shows that the earliest sponges were soft bodied and lacked skeletons, explaining why their oldest fossils are ...

Giant impacts on Earth’s surface can be cataclysmic events with far-reaching consequences. They can excavate massive craters ...

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 ...

For the first time ever, scientists have uncovered a vast field of tektites in Brazil — mysterious glassy fragments forged when a powerful extraterrestrial object slammed into Earth about 6.3 million ...