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A meeting in Paris on 17 January will decide whether to persist with the ban on South Africans at this year's archaeology congress in Southampton. The organizers should cut their losses and cancel.
The US spacecraft launched towards Jupiter 8.5 years ago is about to encounter Uranus, a planet that has completed only two of its orbits since it was first discovered. The event could be exciting.
