Zettabytes—that’s 10 21 bytes—of data are currently generated every year. All of those cat videos have to be stored somewhere, and DNA is a great storage medium; it has amazing data density and is ...
The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.
The new storage system could hold family photos, cultural artifacts and the master versions of digital artworks, movies, ...
In 2022, we reported the DNA sequences of 33 medieval people buried in a Jewish cemetery in Germany. Not long after we made the data publicly available, people started comparing their own DNA with ...