Physicists have stored information for 112 seconds in what may become the world's tiniest computer memory: magnetic "spins" in the centers or nuclei of atoms. Then the physicists retrieved and read ...

With transistors and logic gates as our basic building blocks, we can begin to construct the actual circuits that make up computer memory. One of the simplest memory circuits is the AND gate, which ...

In a bid to create smaller, more powerful computers and smartphones, researchers at New York University have come up with a new digital data storage technique they've dubbed "racetrack memory." There ...

We talk about memory a lot when we discuss gadgets, and it’s no surprise: it’s one of the biggest indicators of performance in the gadgets we all use. But rarely do we stop and think about how it ...

A lot of information is stored on our computers. Without this information our computers wouldn't work. Some types of information stored on our computers include: Computers store information in their ...

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 ...

Computing companies searching for more speed have started to use light to transport data inside computers instead of electricity. Now researchers have unveiled a promising scheme for using light to ...

Scientists at the University of Alberta have demonstrated a new data storage technique that stores zeroes and ones by the presence (or absence) of individual hydrogen atoms. The resulting storage ...

Treating the genome as so much living circuitry, synthetic biologists hope to create designer cells, even “computerized” cells. Such cells could, for example, be used as biosensors to record ...

Modern archiving technology cannot keep up with the growing tsunami of bits. But nature may hold an answer to that problem already. For Nick Goldman, the idea of encoding data in DNA started out as a ...