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Technology Research News February 25, 2004	Hot tip boosts disk capacity Many research efforts are aimed at increasing the amount of information that can be stored in a given area of magnetic media like computer disks. One challenge is making smaller magnetic bits that are stable at room temperature.
CIO December 15, 2003 Christopher Lindquist	Upright Data Storage The engineers charged with finding ever more clever ways to stuff extra bits into a given square inch of magnetic platter are beginning to encounter the physical limits of current techniques. New advances in Perpendicular Magnetic Recording technology, however, may continue the density trend.
Technology Research News July 30, 2003	See-through magnets hang tough Researchers from the Independent University of Barcelona (UAB) and the University of Zaragoza in Spain have found a way to form transparent, durable, lightweight magnets that maintain their magnetism in magnetic fields and high temperatures.
The Motley Fool December 24, 2010 Balachander Suriyanarayanan	IBM's "Racetrack" Closer to Starting Its Engine A memory technology that could enable a handheld device like an MP3 player to store about 3,500 movies or 500,000 songs is a step closer to commercial viability, researchers at IBM say.
Technology Research News November 5, 2003	Electrons spin magnetic fields Spintronics researchers are looking for ways to control and use electron spin. Researchers from Cornell University and Yale University have brought the field a step forward by showing that a flow of electrons that all have the same spin can transfer angular momentum to magnetic material.
PC Magazine October 11, 2006	Terabits In The Vortex Consider a hard drive that can store thousands of movies per square inch. Is it possible?
PC World July 22, 2002 Kuriko Miyake	Hard Disk Will Have Hackers Seeing Double Web sites could be kept safe by using a hard disk with two heads, security company says.
Technology Research News November 3, 2004	Square Rings Promise Reliable MRAM Researchers are working on magnetic random access memory chips that hold as much data as standard electronic memory chips. The key to a promising design is a nanowire bent into a circle.
InternetNews July 5, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Is Laser The Solution For Hard Drive I/O? Dutch researchers say they can write data up to 100 times faster than current technology, but that's a long way away and may not be the best solution.
PC Magazine October 11, 2006	Defragment Floppy Disks Windows XP Disk Defragmenter won't handle a floppy disk.
Popular Mechanics January 2010 Tyghe Trimble	3 Next-Gen Fixes to the Coming Hard-Drive Crisis Hard drives could reach their limits by 2015 unless researchers can find new ways to cram more information onto their disks.
PC World January 16, 2003 Michael Lasky	Credit Card-Size Hard Drive Can Hold 5GB Cheap, thin, flexible StorCard expected to become available this year.
PC World August 22, 2001 Martyn Williams	Fujitsu Smashes Hard Disk Density Record New technology could allow notebook computer drives to store more than 100GB of data within the year...
Technology Research News March 9, 2005	Avalanches up Disk Storage Researchers have constructed a spin-valve transistor that is more sensitive to microscopic magnetic fields than the devices that read today's commercial hard drives.
Technology Research News July 2, 2003	Material helps bits beat heat Researchers have discovered a way to shore up magnetic energy that promises bits only a few nanometers across -- the span of a few dozen hydrogen atoms. The method could make it possible to store more than a trillion bits per square inch, according to the researchers.
Chemistry World July 19, 2011 Jon Cartwright	Magnetic Sponge Can Squeeze Itself Out Researchers in Japan and Singapore have created a sponge that can wring itself out upon application of a magnetic field.
Reactive Reports December 2003 David Bradley	Airy magnets Spanish researchers have created a new type of magnetic material that is ultra-light and transparent. The airy magnets could have applications in flat screen displays and magneto-optical memory devices for computers.
PC Magazine August 16, 2006	Bits & Bites v25n15 Seagate is demonstrating Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) technology.
Technology Research News December 31, 2003	Shape key to strong sensors Researchers have found a possible explanation for why a pair of semiconducting compounds -- mixes of silver and selenium or tellurium -- are strong magnetic sensors over a wide range of magnetic field strengths.
Technology Research News July 30, 2003	Electricity loosens tiny bits Researchers have found a way to make flipping small bits easier. The electrically-assisted magnetization reversal process weakens the magnetization of a ferromagnetic semiconductor's magnetization by applying a pinpoint electric field, making the magnetization of individual bits easier to flip.
IEEE Spectrum September 2007 Joshua J. Romero	Magnetic Storage Taken to the Atomic Scale International team of scientists learns to read and write data on islands of atoms.
Technology Research News May 18, 2005 Eric Smalley	Nanotube Memory Scheme is Magnetic Researchers have designed a type of nanotube flash memory that has a potential capacity of 40 gigabits per square centimeter and 1,000 terabits per cubic centimeter.
Technology Research News January 1, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Aligned fields could speed storage Researchers from three institutes in Germany and Russia have found a material whose electric and magnetic domains line up together. The work could bring together the currently separate fields of magnetic and electronic data storage, which would give both methods more flexibility.
PC Magazine October 1, 2010 Matthew Murray	Will Toshiba's Bit-Patterned Drives Change the HDD Landscape? Toshiba's latest breakthroughs in bit-patterned media promise areal densities of up to 2.5 Tb per square inch -- which could lead to 25TB 3.5-inch drives.
Technology Research News January 26, 2005	Magnetic Logic Becomes Practical Researchers from Stanford University have improved a way to program magnetic random access memory (MRAM) to carry out computations.
InternetNews May 16, 2006 Clint Boulton	IBM Shatters Tape Density Mark Researchers at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., packed data onto a test tape at a density of 6.67 billion bits, or more than 6 terabytes, per square inch.
Chemistry World July 25, 2014 Emma Stoye	Magnetic nanocubes self-assemble into spirals Scientists have been coaxing nano-sized cubes of magnetite (Fe 3O 4) into larger, more complex structures like helices without using a template by exposing them to a magnetic field.
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Prachi Patel	Laser-Heated Hard Drives Could Break Data Density Barrier Scientists at Seagate Technology show that heat-assisted magnetic recording could break the looming terabit-per-square-inch data limit
Chemistry World July 20, 2012 Simon Hadlington	New type of chemical bond around dwarf stars The work, led by Trygve Helgaker at the University of Oslo in Norway, not only provides insights into fundamental aspects of electronic interactions with magnetic fields, but also sheds light on the exotic chemistry that exists in stellar environments.
Technology Research News December 11, 2002 Kimberly Patch	Laser pulses could speed memory Researchers from the Research Institute for Materials in the Netherlands and Siemens AG in Germany have found a way to switch a magnetic bit more quickly. The potential payoff is faster computer memory.
Technology Research News June 1, 2005	Magnetic Resonance Goes Nano Researchers have built a nuclear magnetic resonance device that has the potential to overcome the quantum bit limit because it is small enough to fit on a computer chip.
Technology Research News July 13, 2005	Magnetics Drives Particle Patterns Researchers have devised a way to use electric and magnetic fields to assemble magnetic microparticles into a wide variety of patterns, including clusters, rings, chains and networks.
Technology Research News November 5, 2003	Stored data continues to swell Researchers from the University of California at Berkeley have added up the amount of new information the world stores each year in print, film, and magnetic and optical computer media, and the numbers are staggering.
Wired April 2000 David Voss	Instant Access Memory He's already set off one computer storage revolution. Now Stuart Parkin is reengineering RAM so we'll never have to boot up again.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006	InPhase Drives Holographic Memory with Cypress Chips The InPhase prototype demonstrates a new generation of storage-well beyond DVD, magnetic tape and disk. Holographic storage delivers high capacity by recording data with laser flashes throughout the volume of the recording material, and not just on the surface.
Chemistry World June 27, 2010 Simon Hadlington	Nanoparticles allow remote control of cells In an experiment reminiscent of the mind-control rays that featured prominently in B-movies from the 1950s, scientists in the US have used a magnetic field to alter the behavior of an animal.
Fast Company Dec 2013/Jan 2014	Pivot, aka Evolution Here are the kind of problems the young PC's Limited tackled in the 1980s.
PC World April 8, 2002 Kuriko Miyake	Toshiba Pushes Hard Disk Density Higher Vendor claims its 60GB drives will hit the highest capacity yet...
Chemistry World October 9, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Science Behind Your Hard Drive Scoops Physics Nobel The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Frenchman Albert Fert and German Peter Grunberg, for their discovery of giant magnetoresistance.
Technology Research News November 17, 2004	Atom Flip Energy Measured Scientists have measured the energy required to flip the magnetic orientation, or spin of a single atom trapped on a surface.
Chemistry World May 13, 2015 Heather Powell	Electricity harvested from magnetic noise Wireless battery charging may benefit from a new generator that harnesses magnetic energy from our environment.
Technology Research News October 8, 2003 Eric Smalley	Magnetic memory makes logic Magnetic memory will soon put an end to the daily annoyance of waiting while your computer boots up from its hard disk. These chips that hold data when the power is off might also be capable of a lot more. Adding a few extra wires to each memory cell could turn the chips into efficient computer processors.
InternetNews April 26, 2004 Michael Singer	IBM Takes Nano Chip Design for a 'Spin' A collaboration between IBM and Stanford University could lead to reconfigurable logic devices, room-temperature superconductors and quantum computers.
Popular Mechanics March 2003 Paul Eisenstein	World's Most Powerful Magnet The "magnetar," or magnetic neutron star known as Soft Gamma Repeater 1806-20, is the most powerful known magnetic object in the universe. While it's unlikely anything man-made will ever come close to the power of a magnetar, it's not for lack of trying.
National Defense April 2010 Austin Wright	Device Detects Liquid Explosives in Bottles Scientists have developed the Magnetic Vision Innovative Prototype, or MagViz, a machine that can detect liquid-bomb ingredients in fluids.
Technology Research News April 21, 2004	Magnets Align Nanotubes in Resin Carbon nanotubes have great potential as components of new materials but aligning the tiny tubes can be tricky. Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Florida State University have developed a way to orient the nanotubes in a polymer mix using a magnetic field.
Chemistry World February 28, 2006 Jon Evans	Magnetic Appeal of Shape-Change Polymer Polymer scientists developed polymers that change shape in response to a magnetic field by incorporating magnetic iron(III)oxide nanoparticles into a shape-memory polyetherurethane compound known as TFX.
Chemistry World August 3, 2010 Lewis Brindley	Nanoparticles and ultrasound team up to treat tumors A new, non-invasive method to deliver drugs to the brain has been developed by Taiwanese researchers.
Chemistry World April 7, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Cells get in line Magnetic nanoparticles that 'shepherd' cells into neat lines have been designed by American scientists.
Technology Research News October 17, 2005	Data storage technologies Today's magnetic disk drives could be improved by incorporating much larger magnetoresistance or replaced by microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), near-field optics, holographic systems, or even molecules for better data storage solutions.