Physicists in Netherlands and Japan are the first to flip the value of a magnetic memory bit by firing a very short pulse of circularly-polarized laser light at it. Unlike other magneto-optic data ...

In the drive to cram ever more information into handy data-storage devices, researchers have reduced the size of a bit of data to the ultimate limit—a single atom (Nature 2017, DOI: ...

In this era of big data, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things, there has been an explosive increase in the rate of data generation and storage. As a consequence, faster and ...