Researchers use lasers to store data inside glass, creating a durable system that could preserve digital information for millennia.

Microsoft Research has published a peer-reviewed paper describing a complete glass-based archival storage system that can hold 4.8 terabytes of data on a single disc, with researchers estimating the ...

A rectangular piece of translucent blue glass has several vertical sections of varying blue shades. This piece of glass has a copy of Microsoft flight simulator map data written into it using ...

Borosilicate glass, the same material used in lab equipment and kitchen cookware, can encode data using femtosecond lasers at densities and lifespans no existing archival medium can match, according ...