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Apr 1, 2012

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Square Kilometre Array organization opts for dual-site solution

South Africa and Australia to jointly host world's largest radio telescope

Cloak-on-a-chip unveiled

New microcloak array could be used as a biosensor

How to make a material that shrinks when stretched

Metamaterials could do the "impossible"

Shaken staples stick together

Experiment provides insight into entangled ensembles of U-shaped objects

Geoengineering balloon trial cancelled

SPICE project will be limited to lab experiments

Head of the US nuclear regulator resigns

Particle physicist Gregory Jaczko steps down amid criticisms

Physicists claim new quantum-teleportation record

Photon states teleported 97 km over lake

Infrared vision could help the blind to see

Wireless retinal implant could allow for higher-resolution vision

Levitating drops controlled by fridge magnets

System could be used to model celestial dynamics

Photon-polarization qubits stored in atomic combs

Solid-state devices could be used as quantum repeaters

Physicist convicted of terrorism leaves prison

Former researcher decides against appeal

A cracking approach to nanotechnology

Cracks are exploited to carve out patterns in silicon

Quantum dots give graphene photodetector a boost

Hybrid device is a billion times more sensitive to light

Bow-shock no-show shocks astronomers

Sun is moving slower than we thought relative to interstellar space

Astronomers lift the veil on hidden exoplanet

Discovery using transit-time variations is a first