This work has been selected for exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall in May 2008. Listen to the Breast Cancer Cell created by students from Park View Community School, Durham Community Business College and Sion-Manning RC Girls School with composer Duncan Chapman.

Titan, Saturn's largest moon and a breast cancer cell are very similar...

Saturn’s largest moon is over a billion kilometers from Earth. Titan, as it is called, shimmers with golden hues. The moon's dry lake and stream beds occasionally flood with liquid methane from showers of methane rain. It took eight years for the camera that produced this image to reach Titan.

This work has been selected for exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall in May 2008. Listen to the Friendly Bacteria created by students from Park View Community School, Durham Community Business College and Sion-Manning RC Girls School with composer Duncan Chapman.

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Saturn’s largest moon is over a billion kilometers from Earth. Titan, as it is called, shimmers with golden hues. The moon's dry lake and stream beds occasionally flood with liquid methane from showers of methane rain. It took eight years for the camera that produced this image to reach Titan.

This work has been selected for exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall in May 2008. Listen to the Cholera created by students from Park View Community School, Durham Community Business College and Sion-Manning RC Girls School with composer Duncan Chapman.

Only a small minority of bacteria causes disease...

The Sun is our closest star. It is almost five billion years old. If we had UV-detectors built in to our eyes, it might look a bit like this. Without this sizzling hot ball of gas, there would be no life as we know it. Our familiar star is a huge nuclear reactor fusing hydrogen atoms together under enormous temperature and pressure.

A close relative of the hamster the Mongolian gerbil is a popular pet. Cells from gerbils are also useful research tools for studying cancer, ageing and infectious diseases. Within the tiny sacs of gerbil lungs are cells that look like the one pictured. GeLu (Jell-Ooo) cells make collagen and other materials that help cells gel together.

This work has been selected for exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall in May 2008. Listen to the Super Duper created by students from Park View Community School, Durham Community Business College and Sion-Manning RC Girls School with composer Duncan Chapman.

When I went on holiday to northern Canada, I was peering out from my window one freezing night looking at the Northern Lights when something caught my attention...

This work has been selected for exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall in May 2008. Listen to the Sweet White Blood Cell created by students from Park View Community School, Durham Community Business College and Sion-Manning RC Girls School with composer Duncan Chapman.

My collage is a special white blood cell that helps to protect the body from diseases...

What is a sunspot? Although darker and cooler that the rest of the Sun, the temperature of a sunspot is still hot enough to melt diamonds. Sunspots only last for a few days, but can be bigger than the Earth. This close-up shows a sunspot (darker region) surrounded by bubbles or granules on the Sun’s surface.