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Researchers at University of Southampton have developed a revolutionary 5D glass data storage technology capable of holding up to 360 terabytes of information on a single disc—while remaining stable for billions of years without degrading. Unlike traditional storage, this method uses ultrafast lasers to write data into glass at the nanoscale. Information is encoded across five dimensions: three spatial dimensions, plus the size and orientation of nanostructures. The result is a storage medium th