This new CD changed storage forever by providing unprecedented capacity and speed.

These drawers, in a music library, are by interior architect and furniture designer Ilke Penzlien. Photograph by Achim Hatzius, Berlin, courtesy of Ilke Penzlien. As far as freestanding drawers go: ...

Researchers at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab have developed a new type of optical memory that stores data by transferring light from rare-earth ...