Scientists have discovered a way to use single missing atoms in crystals as memory cells, packing terabytes of data into a ...

Once thought impossible, quasicrystals revealed a hidden order that challenges our understanding of materials. Their ...

High-pressure experiments generated the first direct observation of plastic ice, which has qualities of both crystalline ice and liquid water.

Researchers have explored a 'quantum-inspired' technique to make the 'ones' and 'zeroes' for classical computer memory applications out of crystal defects, each the size of an individual atom. This ...

The ability to store information has evolved from punch-card looms to modern smartphones. Every technological advancement has ...

Scientists at the University of Chicago have developed a groundbreaking crystal memory that stores terabytes of data in a millimeter-sized cube ...

Data storage has always depended on systems that toggle between "on" and "off" states. However, the physical size of the components storing these binary states has ...

From punch card-operated looms in the 1800s to modern cellphones, if an object has an "on" and an "off" state, it can be used ...

From punch card-operated looms in the 1800s to modern cellphones, if an object has an "on" and an "off" state, it can be used to store information.In ...

Prof. Dan Shechtman of the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology made the discovery that would later earn him the 2011 ...