Once upon a time, you could buy floppy drive cleaning disks at just about any stationary or computer store. These days, they’re harder to find. If you want to build one yourself, though, you ...

UnionSine hard disks are a bestseller on Amazon. An investigation shows: Some new enclosures contain old, used HDDs.

“Floppy disks are very reliable, very stable, a very well understood way to get information in and out of a machine,” he says. REUTERS But he is not expecting it to survive another 20 years.

Ever wondered what truly keeps America’s bustling skies safe and organized? You might picture cutting-edge technology, sleek ...

For Mac disks, these are usually stored as .dmg files using Apple's APFS or HFS+ filesystems. Disk Utility and the Mac Finder also know how to mount, copy, and format other disk image formats such ...

The pre-fab encoder disks don’t have individual magnets—they’re just a puck of magnetic slurry that gets its polarity on the assembly line. [Erich] reverse-engineered a disk and found the ...

Planets form in disks of gas and dust, orbiting young stars. The MIRI Mid-INfrared Disk Survey (MINDS), led by Thomas Henning from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Heidelberg, Germany, ...

A group of astronomers, led by Sierk van Terwisga from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, have analysed the mass distribution of over 870 planet-forming disks in the Orion A cloud. By exploiting ...

Direct Detection When searching for planets in protoplanetary disks, it’s easy to convince yourself that you’re seeing them. Astronomers who study these disks have already spotted multiple specks of ...