Scorecard

School projects

GlaxoSmithKline, which makes the blackcurrant soft drink Ribena, has been fined after a project by two New Zealand schoolgirls found that, contrary to the company's claims, the syrup for the cordial contained almost no vitamin C.

Russian satellites

Passengers on a Chilean flight to New Zealand were stunned when they were narrowly missed by flaming chunks of a plummeting Russian satellite, apparently removed from orbit at the wrong time.

Overhyped

Space marathons

It seems that you don't have to be in Boston to run the Boston Marathon these days — astronaut Sunita Williams is planning to run the race on a treadmill on the International Space Station. Presumably officials will discount the fact that she will already be travelling at more than five miles per second...

Credit: WEST COUNTRY FARMHOUSE CHEESEMAKERS

3 Good Reasons...

... to look at a webcam this week

The Internet's latest cult hit is http://www.cheddarvision.tv, which allows fans of cheese and/or mould to witness the maturation process live as it happens. And if you don't do dairy, why not try some armchair astronomy at http://www.astro.caltech.edu/palomar/webcam.html.

Or be thankful you're warm and dry as you check the view from the Antarctic research vessel RRS James Clark Ross (http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/Living_and_Working/Transport/Ships/Webcam).

Sources: Reuters, thewest.com.au, PlanetArk, NASA