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Welcome to Fair Trade week at City University. This vodcast introduces us to City’s ambitions to become a Fair Trade university and gives us a peek into what City students actually think of fair trading.

Ethiopia has become the most recent African nation to announce the arrival of its very own science academy, located in the capital Addis Ababa and backed by the UK’s Royal Society. But there are fears that centres elsewhere have so far failed to deliver.

Passing through atmospheres, whether it be earth, mars or titan, poses problems in space exploration. Nan visited The Von Karman Institute in Brussels where research is going on into some unlikely new material that could be used to insulate space craft.

Four members of the elements team were selected by the EU funded project ‘RELATE’ to go and report from research centres across Europe. Nan was sent for a week at the Von Karman Institute in Brussels and sent us this report.

Panic, anxiety, scaremongering, conspiracies… but just a few months on, and swine flu seems to have been all but forgotten…