Previously, we shared an amazing breakthrough: The ability to store data on slivers of quartz glass for 300 million years. Researchers at Southamton University in the UK have developed the technique ...

While most of us are just getting used to the idea of 3D printing, scientists are already working on technological marvels that operate two dimensions deeper. Researchers at the University of ...

Using nanostructured glass, scientists at the University of Southampton in the UK have, for the first time, experimentally demonstrated the recording and retrieval processes of five dimensional ...

University of Southampton scientists have stored the full human genome on a 5D memory crystal—a revolutionary data storage format that can survive for billions of years. The team hope that the crystal ...

In 2014, 5D memory crystal technology set a Guinness World Record for being the most durable data storage material – a title that it still holds. Scientists are now exploring how 5D memory crystals, ...

The King James Bible encoded onto the "Superman" chip. (Credit: University of Southampton) Millions of years into the future, whatever life-form occupies the planet — assuming this theoretical society ...

A crystal used in the study charges under UV light. The process created by the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering Zhong Lab could be used with a variety of materials, ...