Information can be encoded into all sorts of patterns, whether it’s short and long beeps for Morse code, raised bumps for Braille, or ones and zeroes for computers. Now researchers have demonstrated a ...

Encoding information in DNA has long seemed like a promising way to secure data for the long term, but so far it has required an expert touch. It turns out that you don’t need to be a scientist to ...

A new type of data storage system could be denser, smaller, faster and more energy efficient than silicon chips. The new method involves encoding data in sliding stacks of two-dimensional layers of ...

Suchi Rudra is a writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, BBC, and Vice, among other publications. Storing digital data in RNA? It sounds like science fiction, but it’s not. Researchers ...

Preclinical data show the vectorized miRNA candidate achieved durable knockdown of SCN9A (Na V 1.7), a genetically validated pain target historically difficult to modulate In non-human primates, ...

When the Voyager spacecrafts launched in 1977, ready to study the outer limits of our solar system, they brought with them two golden phonograph records that each contained an assemblage of sounds and ...