How to store every book written on a single post stamp
A team of scientists has reduced the storage of data by creating the smallest ever “hard drive”‚ which stores information atom by atom.Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands said that modern society creates more than a billion gigabytes of new data every day.“To store all this data‚ it is increasingly important that each single bit occupies as little space as possible. A team of scientists at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft University managed to bring this reduction to the ultimate limit: they built a memory of 1 kilobyte (8‚000 bits)‚ where each bit is represented by the position of one single chlorine atom‚” said the institute.“In theory‚ this storage density would allow all books ever created by humans to be written on a single post stamp‚” said lead-scientist Sander Otte.The team reached a storage density of 500 Terabits per square inch which is 500 times better than the best commercial hard disk currently available...
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