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https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-cassette-tapes-adhesive-tape-memory.html

Materials can store information about their past—like a crease
in a piece of paper that has been unfolded is a "memory" of being
folded—that can be retrieved or read out and used for various
purposes. In everyday life, combination locks must remember the
turns of the dial to open, and the memory of specialized materials
is used to make airplanes safer, electronics more efficient and
bridges stronger and more resilient.

Now, researchers at Penn State have demonstrated that ordinary
adhesive tape has a specialized type of material memory capable
of storing a sequence of multiple memories that can be fine-tuned
to have different strengths or be erased to make way for new
memories.

A paper describing the research was published in the New Journal
of Physics.

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Heh heh !

But hey, if you want 'memory', look into all
those Sumerian clay tablets ... 6000+ years
and still readable ! Kinda low density alas :-)

DID come upon an old article about ancient pottery
though ... once The Wheel was invented the common
way of adding grooves to the product WAS a bit
sensitive to environmental sounds. In theory we,
probably with AI help, may actually be able to
hear Sumerian voices someday.

"Information" is hard, theoretically impossible,
to destroy. All kinds of things can store info
of various kinds in various ways. Zircon crystals
MAY hold the sounds of primordial Earth in tiny
variations those sounds induced during crystal
formation.

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