Reading in the news - Fri 29 Jan

• The website features video of the visit of HRH the Earl of Wessex to the Life Sciences Building last term, where he met scientists working on Covid-19.

Flexible flight paths: reports on a study by Cathie Wells and Paul Williams (Meteorology) showing airlines can save fuel by redirecting aircraft to fly in, or around, the jet stream. , and watch our video .

Coastal archaeology: Professor Martin Bell (Archaeology) appears on a documentary, Julia Blackburn and the Suffolk coast, about the history and landscape of this coastline.

Other coverage:

• BBC Radio Berkshire trail a new series of interviews with the MERL's '51 voices' to mark its 70^th anniversary and origins from the 1951 Festival of Britain. The first interview will be featured today (Friday) from 10am.
• reports that the 色狗导航 Library has been shortlisted for an AJ Retrofit design award.
• (S Africa) features a blog by Jon Foster-Pedley (Henley Africa) on the value of disruption to our work lives.
• and highlight an EIT Food survey showing increased consumer confidence in farmers.
• The announces that Professor Chris Bones (Henley Business School) has been appointed to a review panel for legal aid.
• The Countryman (in print) highlights a MERL project to uncover informal names made up by children for rural locations, led by Dr Jeremy Burchardt (History).