laboratory a d.n.a. molecule decays after just a few months then using the new the solution we have is a kind of artificial fossil we re basically trying to create the equivalent of a bone. a bone is a piece of calcium phosphate with d.n.a. inside it what we re working on is a small glass beads with strands of d.n.a. inside. in austria and parked in. the d.n.a. should last up to a 1000 years preserved in glass beads a so small they can only be seen under an electron microscope each beat contains about 10 killer bytes of data about 2 pages of a book. and you can almost see the truth of what you can see in this image is about 20 or 30 pages of a book of beauty but remember these particles are a 200000 times magnification long and if they really are incredibly small. so if