Silk is biocompatible, biodegradable, and extremely hardy Spiders use their silk to catch lunch. Now physicists are using it to catch light. New research shows that natural silk could be an... Read more
“You’re able to do things with light that you can’t do with electricity,” Thankfully, data transmission speeds have come a long way since the days of dial-up when users would have plenty of... Read more
It apparently also has the ability to optically store data forever. Recently we heard about the M-DISC, which can reportedly store data in a rock-like medium for up to 1,000 years. Now, scie... Read more