BBC Science Focus
Havana Syndrome: What's Causing the Mysterious Illness?
Some have blamed top-secret weapons, but the condition could be all in the mind
4 min |
January 2022
BBC Science Focus
Omicron Variant: How Worried Should We Be About It?
Research has started to emerge on the latest variant of COVID. How concerned should we be about it, and what makes it different from previous variants?
5 min |
January 2022
BBC Science Focus
The Light Fantastic
As new telescopes around the world power up, they could answer an ancient mystery: what’s powering the most energetic explosions in the Universe?
10 min |
January 2022
BBC Science Focus
An End to Ageing?
Eternal youth is the stuff of religion and mythology, but what if we could just have a bit more of it? What if there was a pill that could slow down the ravages of time, so that you could feel younger for longer. It sounds like snake oil, but there’s a growing body of research that’s betting on making it a reality
9 min |
January 2022
Newsweek Europe
How to Keep Learning All Your Life
The need to learn is constant, but the tools necessary for it change as you get older
9 min |
January 07 - 14, 2022
BBC Science Focus
Could you be cryogenically frozen?
It’s a task harder than doing the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs
3 min |
New Year 2022
BBC Science Focus
GATEWAY TO THE FUTURE
2022 will see NASA, with help from its international partners, take the first major step on humanity’s journey back to the Moon, and the start of a mission to establish an outpost alongside Earth’s natural satellite
8 min |
New Year 2022
BBC Science Focus
A WHOLE NEW WORLD?
Technology has transformed our lives in the last couple of years. Will it continue to do so as we ring in 2022?
2 min |
New Year 2022
BBC Science Focus
A VACCINE FOR CANCER
The pandemic derailed a lot of medical research. But the effort that was suddenly redirected towards developing a vaccine for COVID-19 may have helped us make important progress on at least one breakthrough: preventing cancer
10 min |
New Year 2022
BBC Science Focus
PUTTING NATURE TO RIGHTS
More countries are enshrining the right to a clean environment into law. So if a company or government is impinging upon that right, you could take them to court
10 min |
New Year 2022
BBC Science Focus
AUGMENTED INTELLIGENCE: A BETTER TYPE OF AI?
Why are we working so hard to make computers that compute better, when we could be using computers to help us think and act better?
9 min |
New Year 2022
BBC Science Focus
IT'S TIME TO GET EXCITED ABOUT THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE
NASA’s most ambitious project yet will peer deep into space looking for clues about the birth of planets, stars and the evolution of the Universe itself
10+ min |
New Year 2022
BBC Science Focus
RUNNING CIRCLES AROUND DEPRESSION
Lacing up your trainers can help reduce your chances of developing depression
2 min |
New Year 2022
BBC Science Focus
WHAT LIES BENEATH
The European Space Agency’s JUICE mission aims to peer beneath the icy surfaces of Jupiter’s moons to determine whether something could be living in the waters below
9 min |
New Year 2022
BBC Focus - Science & Technology
O&A OF THE YEAR
THE QUESTIONS THAT WE'VE BEEN PONDERING IN 2021
10+ min |
December 2021
BBC Focus - Science & Technology
HOW TO TACKLE ZOOM FATIGUE
After nearly two years of working from home, the novelty of video conferencing has rather worn off…
2 min |
December 2021
BBC Focus - Science & Technology
COULD YOU COOK A TURKEY BY DROPPING IT FROM SPACE?
OVEN DECIDED TO BREAK ON CHRISTMAS EVE? DESPERATE TIMES CALL FOR DESPERATE MEASURES
3 min |
December 2021
BBC Focus - Science & Technology
COLOURFUL CROSSINGS: WILL THEY MAKE OUR STREETS SAFER FOR ALL?
UK councils are upgrading pedestrian crossings to encourage more people to walk safely across the road. But the science isn’t black and white…
3 min |
December 2021
BBC Focus - Science & Technology
Are we living in a simulation?
Don your black leather and a pair of shades, it’s time to take a trip into the Matrix
3 min |
December 2021
BBC Focus - Science & Technology
ARE SPIDERS GETTING BIGGER?
AS SPIDERS GAME INDOORS THIS AUTUMN, SOCIAL MEDIA WAS CONVINCED THE UK'S ARACHNIDS HAD GROWN IN SIZE
2 min |
December 2021
BBC Focus - Science & Technology
Are Asian Hornets Invading the UK and Europe?
Watch out, honeybees
2 min |
December 2021
BBC Focus - Science & Technology
A Dangerous Relationship?
Any of us can build a following online, but a large band of followers can make it tricky to navigate the turbulent waters of the digital world
2 min |
December 2021
BBC Focus - Science & Technology
Elephants: Why Are These Iconic African Animals Losing Their Tusks?
A genetic analysis suggests that African elephants are evolving to be tuskless, and it seems that poaching could be to blame
3 min |
December 2021
BBC Wildlife
Forever Young
A slower pace of life is behind the longevity of the world’s oldest ever animal: a humble clam
3 min |
November 2021
BBC Countryfile Magazine
Fungi Fascination
The mushrooms in our autumn woodlands are not only strange and intriguing, they and other fungi are vital to life on Earth. James Fair finds out more from biologist and author Merlin Sheldrake
6 min |
November 2021
BBC Focus - Science & Technology
YOUR MYSTERIOUS BRAIN
Science has mapped the surface of Mars and translated the code for life. By comparison, we know next to nothing about what’s between our ears. Over the next few pages, we ask leading scientists to answer some of the most important questions about our brains…
10+ min |
November 2021
BBC Focus - Science & Technology
Volcanoes may have given dinosaur evolution a helping hand
The rise of the dinosaurs seems to be connected to a period of violent volcanic activity more than 230 million years ago
2 min |
November 2021
BBC Focus - Science & Technology
THE FIRST BLACK HOLES
Since just after the Big Bang, ancient black holes may have been shaping the Universe as we know it. Now, scientists are tantalisingly close to glimpsing these mysterious objects
10+ min |
November 2021
BBC Focus - Science & Technology
Stone Age humans hatched and raised cassowary chicks in New Guinea
Thousands of years before the domestication of the chicken, humans were collecting cassowary eggs before they hatched
3 min |
November 2021
BBC Focus - Science & Technology
Celebrities : Why Do They Love Bizarre Fads?
Why are famous stars so drawn to the allure of questionable health products and trends?
4 min |