Science
BBC Science Focus
COULD SCIENTISTS UPLOAD AN ANIMAL BRAIN TO A COMPUTER?
The answer to this depends on what you mean by 'upload' and 'brain'.
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July 2025
BBC Science Focus
SOLITUDE SOLUTIONS
Shut the door, switch off your phone. Science says being alone is good for us
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July 2025
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Research team 'puzzled' by strange activity inside the Moon
Scientists may have discovered why the two sides of the Moon look so different
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July 2025
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HOW CAN I FIND OUT IF I SMELL?
We all stink some of the time, when bacteria get stuck in the sweat produced by our apocrine glands.
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July 2025
BBC Science Focus
TECH TO TURN YOU INTO A CYBORG
A future where humans can lift incredible weights, see in the dark and fly sounds far-fetched, but actually... it's already here
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July 2025
BBC Science Focus
CORAL-FRIENDLY SUNSCREEN
Chemicals in sunscreen can bleach and harm coral reefs, but a new product on the market hopes to replenish them
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July 2025
BBC Science Focus
EDITOR'S PICKS...
This month's smartest tech
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July 2025
BBC Science Focus
HOW TO BEAT THE AFTERNOON SLUMP
Recent research is revealing what's causing your post-lunch lethargy, why it stalls your productivity and the best ways to get your brain back into gear
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July 2025
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All humans emit subtle light until they die
When people tell you you're glowing, they're not wrong
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July 2025
BBC Science Focus
CAN ANIMALS GET DRUNK?
It's not hard to find stories of animals getting tipsy. A moose in Sweden was found with its head stuck in a tree after being seen staggering around, eating fermented apples. Elephants in Botswana getting drunk on marula fruit. My pet rat, who would knock over my home brew and then lick up the spillage. They all seemed inebriated, but were they?
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July 2025
BBC Science Focus
DEFENDERS OF EARTH
Meet the people who keep watch for world-ending asteroids
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July 2025
BBC Science Focus
Only one country in the world produces all the food it needs
All other countries are vulnerable to the effects of war, natural disasters and trade disputes on their food supply
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July 2025
BBC Science Focus
THE TUFTED GROUND SQUIRREL
You know when you stare at cute things for too long and they start to look creepy? I'm thinking garden gnomes, baby dolls, any child in a princess outfit and all cats. Well, now there's another one to add to the list.
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July 2025
BBC Science Focus
WHAT OUR ANCESTORS ACTUALLY ATE
Our hunter-gatherer forebears weren't the carnivorous cavemen we once thought. Which makes trying to build a diet based on what they ate not only unwise, but practically impossible
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July 2025
BBC Science Focus
Ginger cats are genetic freaks
On top of being certified agents of chaos, orange cats are now officially DNA freaks
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July 2025
BBC Science Focus
WHAT IF WE BUILT A SUPER-COLLIDER AROUND THE MOON?
Somewhat surprisingly, scientists and engineers have indeed considered putting a super-collider on the Moon. Such a machine would operate just like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), at CERN, near Geneva, the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. These 'atom-smashers' create two particle beams travelling in opposite directions through ultrahigh-vacuum rings. Strong superconducting electromagnets accelerate the beams to almost the speed of light. The beams are then allowed to collide in one of the detector instruments, creating a cascade of other particles which are then measured and analysed.
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July 2025
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New theory could finally make ‘quantum gravity' a reality... and prove Einstein wrong
A united Theory of Everything is the 'Holy Grail of physics'
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July 2025
BBC Science Focus
'Doomsday tsunami' is ready to strike the US
A 100ft mega tsunami could hit the US at any moment - and that's only the beginning
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July 2025
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Does having a 'dog baby' make us happier than having a human baby?
While fertility rates across the world are falling, more and more of us are choosing to parent pooches
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July 2025
BBC Science Focus
It's behind you!
Audun Rikardsen is on the hunt for whales. Don't worry, though, his intention isn't to kill them. He and his crewmate Emma Vogel (behind the camera) are looking to tag the massive sea mammals, so their movements can be tracked and their behaviour better understood.
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July 2025
BBC Science Focus
New cholesterol treatment can cut levels by 69% after one dose
The future of heart attack prevention could be a single injection
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July 2025
BBC Science Focus
Should my next boss be an artificial intelligence?
Humans are emotional, irrational and biased. Hardly an ideal recipe for running a company. So would an AI do a better job?
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July 2025
BBC Science Focus
Here's what could happen to your teeth if fluoride disappears from drinking water
Dental experts are sounding the alarm about removing fluoride from drinking water. But how much of an impact will the ban actually have?
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July 2025
BBC Science Focus
Decades-old sea monster mystery solved
Discovered in the 80s, the creature was unlike anything scientists had seen before
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July 2025
BBC Science Focus
IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE GIVING US FALSE MEMORIES?
You may have seen videos circulating online of Donald Trump and Elon Musk doing outlandish things - recreating scenes from the TV show Breaking Bad, for example.
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May 2025
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SWEAT AND BEERS
The latest in exercise science suggests that maybe you can run off a hangover
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May 2025
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HOW HAS LIVING WITH A NARCISSIST AFFECTED ME?
Are you an empathic people-pleaser who prefers to stay out of the spotlight?
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May 2025
BBC Science Focus
WILL SUSPENDED ANIMATION EVER EXIST?
It already does, if you count animals hibernating over winter.
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May 2025
BBC Science Focus
THE FRILLED SHARK
In the dark waters of the deep sea, lurk many curious and enigmatic animals that few have seen.
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May 2025
BBC Science Focus
YOU ARE FEELING VERY...HEALTHY
Forget the swinging pocket watches, scientists are now praising hypnotherapy as a powerful tool to fight mental and physical pain. Count back from five and we'll begin...
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