Scientists Encode Wizard of Oz in a Vanishingly Small Plastic
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Pulling back the curtain to reveal a molecular key to The Wizard of Oz
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Kickstart: UT Austin borrows from Austen for its research
UT Austin borrows from Austen for its research
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single researcher in possession of a good finding, must be in want of a way to publicize it. So why not use a good Jane Austen quote?
Not the one above, shamelessly tweaked from
Pride & Prejudice, but instead a group from the University of Texas at Austin (of course) turned to a lesser-known work,
Mansfield Park, to show off how it could embed information in a polymer.
The molecular data-storage technique from UT encoded the quote by using polymers called oligourethanes, which researchers said are highly accessible and encode information with greater density than DNA-based approaches, which rely on nucleic acids.
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