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Other News: Scientists invent memory storage good for a billion years

Scientists are reporting successful tests of a new memory device that could allow terabytes of data to be stored without corruption for a billion years.

The device is an iron nano-particle that measures 1/50,000th of the width of a human hair, enclosed in a hollow carbon nano-tube. The iron can be shuttled back and forth within the tube as a way to store data.

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