With over three zettabytes (3,000 billion billion bytes) of digital information floating around the world, it is challenging to store the constant flow. Up until now, we’ve used a hard drive, or a ...

Like DNA hard drives, the approach could lock the world's data down for the long haul—if researchers can make it practical. We have a data storage problem. This year, the world’s storage needs will ...

From enterprise flash to experimental archival media, these are ten technologies looking to replace traditional hard drives..

Every cell in your body contains a bundle of nucleic acid—deoxyribonucleic acid, to be specific. More commonly known as DNA, this molecule contains all the genetic information that makes you a ...

The research community is excited about the potential of DNA to function as long-term archival storage. That’s largely because it’s extremely dense, chemically stable for tens of thousands of years, ...

Is that data storage in your genes, or are you just pleased to see me? A team of boffins at Microsoft and the University of Washington have been building a DNA drive that can write and read DNA data, ...