This month's podcast takes a closer look at the world's largest radio telescope, a new approach to informed consent in developing countries, the expanding higher education frontier in Sub-Saharan Africa, and 'geojournalism'.
First we travel to the semi-desert region of the Karoo in South Africa - to a construction site for the Square Kilometre Array, which will give scientists unprecedented access to the stars. Jon Spaull talks to Kyle Henderson, a local high school student who is now benefitting from this new science infrastructure.
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