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

Secret 'dino bugs' revealed
Scientists use X-rays to find a host of animals trapped in 100-million-year-old opaque amber.

Disk technology takes Nobel Prize
French scientist Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg of Germany win the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics.

Miniature golden artwork unveiled
Scientists create a tiny image of the Sun using a technique which could be used to make future silicon chips.

Ancient microbes 'revived' in lab
Microbes locked in Antarctic ice for as much as eight million years have been & #34;resuscitated & #34; in a laboratory.

Charcoal reveals wildfire history
UK scientists trace the history of wildfires by studying lumps of ancient charcoal from around the world.

Most leggy millipede rediscovered
Scientists rediscover the millipede with the most legs 80 years after its first and only sighting. The world's leggiest millipede has been rediscovered 80 years ago after its first and only sighting.

Comet dust samples come to the UK
The first samples of dust from a far-off comet captured by the Stardust probe, have arrived in the UK to undergo analysis.

Photos get the flavour of science
A close-up image of a peppercorn and a grain of sea salt wins the 2005 Visions of Science photo competition.

Scientists fight euro forgeries
Researchers in Derby pioneer ways to fight the increasing amounts of fake euro coins.

Hi-tech spotlight put on murder
A state-of-the-art microscope located in Cornwall helps detectives working on murder inquiries.

Trilobite was ancient snack food
Direct evidence has been found that trilobites, the most diverse animals in the fossil record, were eaten by other ancient sea creatures.

Ancient man 'used tooth picks'
Our human ancestors may have taken a close interest in dental hygiene, research suggests.

'Martian features' found on Earth
A & #34;striking & #34; match for tiny bacteria-like structures found on a Martian meteorite is discovered on rocks from the bottom of a Turkish lake.

Science argues to keep bones
UK researchers fear they may soon have to hand over scientifically important ancient remains to indigenous communities.

The microbes that 'rule the world'
The Earth's climate may be dependent upon microbes that eat rock beneath the sea floor.

How to copyright yourself
The DNA Copyright Institute of San Francisco is urging high-profile individuals to patent themselves and thus prevent & #34;DNA theft and misappropriation & #34; in the future.

Tuning the tubes
Scientists glimpse the future when they will be able to exploit the extraordinary world of carbon nanotubes.

Nanomachines get their orders
Nanotechnologists take two vital steps toward manipulating matter into tiny machines.

Electronic circuits scale down
Scientists are learning how to manipulate the quantum world in a way that could herald ultra-small electronic circuits.