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What's Inside the Moon; The End of Moore's Law

Reuters

Discovered: What the moon's insides look like, the tiniest transistor of all time, climate change is killing alpine chipmunks, and get ready for test-tube hamburgers. 

By Rebecca Greenfield

Jan 13, 2012

The Smallest Data Storage in The World

Pushing Moore's law to its limit, researchers at I.B.M have figured out a way to store one bit of data on 12 atoms, something it takes a computer 1 million atoms to do. 

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