In a new take on a technology from the 1960s, this year, researchers created a cassette tape that uses DNA instead of iron oxide to encode information on a plastic tape. It can hold a phenomenal ...

I’ve written at length before about my love of vinyl records and how pleased I am that, in a largely digital world, they are making something of a ‘comeback’. I’ve also talked about how CDs replaced ...

For a supposedly obsolete music format, audio cassette sales seem to be set on fast forward at the moment. Cassettes are fragile, inconvenient, and relatively low-quality in terms of sound quality — ...

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A Singaporean designer has found an unexpected use for a once-ubiquitous piece of technology: the cassette tape. Jessica “J.J.” Chuan is the founder of Singapore-based upcycling social enterprise ...

No matter how old you are, there's a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series that'll remind you of those Saturday morning cartoon marathons. For fans who were there from the beginning, you can ...

As data storage needs have grown over the years, so has the development of new technologies, such as Microsoft's Project Silica and diamond optical discs, which can make it easier to store large ...

Researchers in China have created a cassette tape capable of storing enough data to hold every song ever recorded. The team from the Southern University of Science and Technology in Guangdong made the ...

When Taylor Swift’s releases her new album, “Life of a Showgirl,” in October, it can be heard on the usual places, including streaming, vinyl and…cassette tape? The cassette tape was once one of the ...

A creative do-it-yourself tutorial demonstrating how to print custom designs on t-shirts using everyday materials like cereal boxes and tape for stenciling. Exclusive: Brazil’s president hits back at ...

When the Rolling Stones hit a creative and professional plateau in the late 1960s, they risked fading away into obscurity with the closing of the decade—that is, until a few fateful drug arrests and ...

As a budding naturalist growing up in the concrete-heavy environs of Boston, I would regularly thumb through my family’s collection of nature books and daydream about the creatures within. One species ...