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Diatom nanostructures bend light
Marine algae's clever light-scattering systems could be replicated in medical devices

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

Mars sprinkle test yields results
Phoenix will try sprinkling Martian soil on to an instrument in a bid to overcome problems caused by the soil's clumpy nature.

Xerox plans the future of today
The famed Xerox Parc labs invites the BBC to view the best of its latest crop of research projects

'Darkest ever' material created
Superblack material made from microscopic carbon nanotubes is produced in a US laboratory.

Hot picks: UK tech start-ups
The BBC News website identifies some of the UK's hottest tech start-up companies.

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.

White beetle dazzles scientists
An unusual insect could help the development of brilliant white, ultra-thin materials, a study suggests.

Japan launches Sun 'microscope'
Japan launches a spacecraft to study solar flares, huge explosions in the Sun's atmosphere.

Artificial muscles light up TVs
Televisions could show real colour images for the first time thanks to research by Swiss scientists.

Minuscule microscope testing hope
Scientists develop a tiny microscope - the width of a human hair - which they say could revolutionise medicine.

Test to spot if cancer has spread
A test that measures how stretchy cells are could revolutionise the way doctors spot whether cancers have spread.

Â£2.6m grant awarded to university
Bath University's physics department receives a Â£2.6m grant for work into photons.

Getting back into the groove
Queen Victoria, Abraham Lincoln, Florence Nightingale and others may soon be able to speak again, as scientists perfect techniques to recover recordings from history.

Science closes in on perfect lens
Composites are beginning to open up an exciting range of new imaging and detection technologies.

Hair's breadth probe for the ear
A half-millimetre wide optical fibre could be used to send back images of the inner ear to doctors.

'World's largest virus' found
A giant virus that lurks inside amoebas and may cause pneumonia in humans has been spotted by scientists.

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

Medical hope from mini-microscopes
Three Welsh universities win a grant of Â£2m to further pioneering work in the field of optical biochips - cell-sized microscopes.

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