The forgotten tape drive just made a comeback so huge it’s threatening to outlast flash drives and SSDs combined.

An international team of scientists has made a breakthrough in the magnetic manipulation of nanoparticles that could lead to a big boost for small scale digital storage in portable devices. The ...

Data storage needs to keep up with our desire to snap pictures, download clips from the Internet, and create new digital documents. Since the early stages of computer technology, magnetic storage has ...

Japanese scientists have developed a device that can switch safely and quickly between magnetic and electronic signals. In so doing they've opened the door to a doubling of the storage capacity of ...

A newly discovered magnetic phenomenon could accelerate data storage by several orders of magnitude. With a constantly growing flood of information, we are being inundated with increasing quantities ...

Toshiba demonstrated a method for using magnetic fields from microwave radiation to reverse the magnetization direction selectively in a multi-layer magnetic recording media at the International ...

Figure 1: Magnetoresistive head for hard-disk recording. The MRAM potentially combines key advantages such as non-volatility, infinite endurance and fast random access (down to 5 ns read/write time 34 ...

If you’ve ever felt your kitchen space was shrinking under the weight of clutter, you’re not alone. But a renovation to add more cabinets or build a pantry isn’t practical for most people — so a ...

A new frontier in the study of magnetic materials, femtomagnetism, could lead to ultrafast magnetic storage devices that would transform information processing technologies. Now, researchers report a ...

Magnetic skyrmions are quasiparticle magnetic spin configurations with a whirling vortex-like structure that could be used as storage bits in next-generation “racetrack” memories and logic devices ...