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E-Mail IMAGE: This image shows a quote from Jane Austen s Mansfield Park written in oligourethanes. view more Credit: Sarah Moor Using a novel molecular-data-storage technique, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have encoded a quote from Jane Austen s classic novel Mansfield Park in a series of oligomers, which a third party could read back without prior knowledge of the structures that encoded the passage. The findings, published April 21st in the journal Cell Reports Physical Science, illustrate a method to encode data that allows for greater information density than DNA-based approaches and that relies on urethane-like plastics highly accessible and structurally modifiable chemical feedstocks instead of nucleic acids. ....