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'Super-microscope' opens at Isis
A new £200m neutron source at Isis, Oxfordshire, will allow scientists to probe matter at the atomic level.

The science of the LHC
BBC News takes a look at the principal areas of science that will be explored by the Large Hadron Collider.

Phoenix diary: Mission to Mars
Dr Tom Pike, from Imperial College London, shares his experiences of being part of the Phoenix Mars probe team.

Science probe for 'space pistols'
Scientists investigate whether a former US president's duelling pistols were really made from a meteorite.

Green movement forgets its politics
Why climate campaigners should stop trying to persuade people into lifestyle changes and start dealing with the politics.

Antarctic diary: Polar year
The BBC's Martin Redfern is spending a month in the Antarctic reporting on International Polar Year.

Phoenix diary: Mission to Mars
Dr Tom Pike is a team member on Nasa's Phoenix mission to Mars. He is writing a diary of his experiences on the project.

Sensitive giant probes atomic world
The UK's most powerful microscope, based at Imperial College London, moves towards full operation.

Chinese made first use of diamond
Stone age craftsmen in China were polishing objects using diamond 2,000 years before anyone else had the same idea, new evidence suggests.

'Nano-needle' operates on cell
Scientists have performed a delicate surgical operation on a single living cell, using a needle that is just a few billionths of a metre wide.

Tiny carbon cylinders set record
Researchers at Oxford and Nottingham universities make it into the record books by creating the smallest & #34;test tubes & #34; known to science.

Pushing computers to the limit
Computing power has risen phenomenally in the past 40 years and new approaches could help to keep it growing.

Small world's big achievement
Bill McLellan recalls for a new BBC nanotech series how he came to make his landmark micromotor, a working device smaller than a pinhead.

Zooming in on the nanoscale
A new imaging technique has produced a picture of some of the smallest things ever seen by scientists.

Closing in on bacteria
A technique to observe molecules on the surface of living bacterial cells offers new ways to fight infection.

Atomic line-up surprises scientists
Scientists observe that atoms form patterns, something that could be utilised to assemble useful structures.

Spacecraft collects stardust
Flying through deep space, a Nasa spacecraft has begun collecting dust scattered into space from other suns.

'Little Bang' creates cosmic soup
European scientists reproduce conditions present a fraction of a second after the Big Bang, and create a form of matter not seen for 15 billion years.

Scientists probe the quantum world
Scientists have managed to make an atom be in two places at the same time.

Scientists see atoms in diamond
Unprecedented images of the carbon atoms in a diamond have been taken by a new microscope.