Tiny magnetic "flowers" engineered by physicist Anna Palau are redefining how we manipulate magnetic fields. These ...

Pioneering new research could help unlock exciting new potential to create ultrafast, laser-driven storage devices. The study ...

A flower-shaped structure only a few micrometers in size made of a nickel-iron alloy can concentrate and locally enhance ...

The IBM 350, the world's first hard disk, was released in 1956. As the RAMAC computer's memory, it had space for 3.75 ...

Floppy disk, brick cell phone, typewriter… did you miss me? Check out the latest versions of these and other older technologies ...

Seagate’s innovation, heat-assisted magnetic recording ... and the storage device has endured while other media such as punch cards, floppy disks and CD-ROMs fell into obscurity.

Makers of hard disk drives, under growing pressure from faster rivals, hope a breakthrough will keep it the dominant data-storage medium.

The research led by scientists from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) introduces a new magnetic state called a magneto-ionic vortex, or “vortion.” Modern data storage relies on ...

revealing that the FAA is having trouble modernizing aviation infrastructure and safety systems — many of which still use floppy disks — because it receives no steady stream of funding.