The regions that border the Black Sea have long drawn the attention of a range of researchers, from geneticists to linguists. The swath of land that includes the modern-day Balkans and travels east through Turkey and Armenia is a natural bridge to connect distinct cultures from Europe and Asia. Many peoples can trace their ancestry and language to the area, which has for millennia been a hotspot of human activity. It continues to be the subject of research by historians looking for common threads binding European and West Asian cultures.
Could all the data produced by YouTube be stored in the volume of a single teaspoon? And could thousands of copies of the Bible be preserved in a unit that is a billionth of a gram? Israeli researchers say, theoretically, yes. And the way to do it is by using DNA for data storage.
Every minute in 2018, Google conducted 3.88 million searches, and people watched 4.33 million videos on YouTube, sent 159,362,760 e-mails, tweeted 473,000 times and posted 49,000 photos on Instagram, according to software company Domo. By 2020 an estimated 1.7 megabytes of data will be created per second per person globally, which translates to about 418 zettabytes in a single year (418 billion one-terabyte hard drive’s worth of information), assuming a world population of 7.8 billion.
