Those flattened clouds of gas and dust surrounding supermassive black holes are known as accretion disks. Around some ...

Floppy disks, if you’re older than 30, you likely remember these from school. In the days before CD-Rs, thumb drives, and ...

Graham Tinkers has created a Raspberry Pi-powered system that automatically backs up stacks of floppy disks and takes a picture of the label as it goes.

Newborn stars are surrounded by disks of gas and dust within which planets are born, known as protoplanetary disks. In the ...

A joint Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to learn more about the dusty disk around the bright star Vega ...

Most stars form in collections, called clusters or associations, that include very massive stars. These giant stars send out ...

The city’s light-rail system has used 5¼-inch floppy disks for nearly 40 years. Getting off them won't come cheap.

Gas swirling around black holes forms disks that are among the most effective energy converters in the universe, emitting ...

The Municipal Transportation Agency board approved a new contract with Hitachi Rail to upgrade its existing train control ...

Transportation officials in San Francisco took a step towards modernizing the train control system that powers the Muni Metro ...

Planet-forming disks are rapidly disintegrated when blasted with high-energy radiation from massive young stars.

Going to higher disk counts in the same HDD form factor requires thinner disks. Hoya, a glass disk substrate manufacturer has shown higher disk count configurations in the conventional 3.5-inch ...