From books to floppy disks to magnetic memory, technologies to store information continue to improve. Yet threats as simple as water and as complex as cyberattacks can still corrupt our records.
Analytical Chemistry
Jun 7, 2019
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Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed new techniques for labeling and retrieving data files in DNA-based information storage systems, addressing two of the key obstacles to widespread adoption of ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 3, 2019
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There are sharks off Florida's coast. That's not news, but with Memorial Day weekend's traditional summer season kickoff, there are now thousands more people venturing to Florida's beaches, so that means more shark sightings.
Plants & Animals
May 30, 2019
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There's a joke by comedian Steven Wright that goes, "You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"
Hardware
May 22, 2019
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A free, open-source toolkit to help researchers deal with data management overload has been devised by the John Innes Centre Informatics team.
Software
Mar 22, 2019
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A new distributed file system for high-performance computing available today via the software collaboration site GitHub provides unprecedented performance for creating, updating and managing extreme numbers of files.
Software
Mar 15, 2019
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Seismology has a Big Data problem. Northwestern University seismologists think everyday citizens are the solution.
Earth Sciences
Mar 14, 2019
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Sharks have always struck at the heart of people's most primal fears of the ocean. Cue: JAWS theme song. However, a new study led by LSU Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences Assistant Professor Stephen Midway shows ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 27, 2019
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The music business has changed dramatically in the last couple of decades since the massive expansion of the internet, the development of music file compression algorithms, and the concept of anonymous file-sharing services. ...
Internet
Nov 9, 2018
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WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump's administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court stop a novel and sweeping lawsuit pressed by children and teenagers seeking to force the federal government to take steps against climate change.
Environment
Oct 19, 2018
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