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Nanoshells could boost photovoltaics

Whispering-gallery structures trap more light

Japanese cosmology centre secures long-term future

Tokyo institute receives $7.5m endowment from US-based Kavli Foundation

Neutrinos point to rare stellar fusion

Borexino catches the first glimpse of pep reaction

Listening with a 'quantum ear'

Tiny microphone could pave the way for quantum acoustics

Physicists create new slow-light technique

Electromagnetically induced transparency seen in nuclear system for first time

How supercontinents are born

Geological model predicts merging of North America and Asia

Raman technique peers into cabin baggage

New scanner could ease airport liquids ban

Theoretical-physics hub opens in South America

South American Institute for Fundamental Research set to tackle subjects ranging from mathematical biology to cosmology

Vertical graphene transistor avoids leakage

New device can be switched on and off

Cool sun could host habitable planet

New super-Earth detected within the habitable zone of a cool star

Spider webs strengthened by local sacrifices

Arachnid silks could inspire improved building designs

Magnetic fields put the brakes on millisecond pulsars

Research could also help better determine pulsar age

Getting to the froth of the matter

Physicists create the "ideal foam" in the lab for the first time

Frequency comb reaches extreme ultraviolet

Device could boost study of fundamental constants

Heating cools a semiconductor

Laser technique used on solid for first time