In an effort to find out what happened here, which they must do before they can begin to colonise the planet, they resurrect a human being, bringing the planet’s apex predator back from extinction. He and his team recently inscribed the complete human genome — which involves describing all three billion base pairs of DNA — onto a nanostructured or …
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. London CNN — Scientists in the United Kingdom have stored the entire human genome on a “5D memory crystal,” in the hope that it could be used in the future as a blueprint to bring humanity back from extinction. In 2014, the crystal was awarded the Guinness World Record for “most durable …
How to store data for 1,000 years Alamy Most current data storage systems eventually stop working. Storing data critical for humanity in encapsulated DNA in an ice vault could mean "it can last forever, pretty much", says Milenkovic. Alamy Before the DNA double helix was discovered in 1953, many scientists believed its structure would be too simple to store much …
