Remember cassette tapes? Those beautifully analogue rectangles of magnetic wonder that soundtracked the 80s and 90s, eternally vulnerable to being mangled by your car stereo or requiring emergency pencil surgery when the tape decided to unspool itself? Well, they’re back. Sort of. Except this time, instead of storing your carefully curated mixtape, they might just save civilisation’s entire digital footprint.
Scientists at the Southern University of Science and Technology in China have developed what they’re calling a DNA cassette tape, and it’s about as far removed from your old Walkman as you can imagine whilst still…
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