WHAT do making rockets and robots, gaming, 3D, animation, teddy hacking, astronauts — even a portable planetarium and Mega Molecules — have in common? Discovery 2011.

JUST as those who, over the past five years, warned that we were sleepwalking towards economic catastrophe were derided or silenced, those who warn us that climate change will have a profound impact are being largely ignored.

THE Government has been urged to implement a two-year-old report on the promotion of science in schools.