“There’s a really good contrast between the dark poo stains and the ice.”

British Antarctic Survey scientist Phil Trathan explains how spotting penguins from space is best done by following what they leave behind.

“If we were a business you wouldn’t worry about nationality, you would just take the best students from wherever they came from the in the world.”

Roy Anderson, rector of Imperial College London wants to set up a UK-version of the US’s Ivy League of privately funded universities.