At 8am, the morning assembly at the Believers in Christ Christian Academy in downtown Milwaukee is packed with parents, some of whom make up the orchestra at what looks more like a gospel-singing service than the normal chaos of assembly.

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Getting to that stage might mean combining self-assembly methods with lithography, or doing away with the head that reads the data-packed disk and instead creating a self-assembling solid-state system on the model of Flash memory storage used today.

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Their main gripe is that the constituent assembly that has been acting as Venezuela's supreme power since its election last July has packed the electoral tribunal with government supporters.

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The secret to packing that much information on such small real estate--about 15 times denser than the densest data storage device currently in existence--is self-assembly, or tricking the disk's materials into organizing into an array of data-storing dots packed far tighter than what could be accomplished with current techniques.

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