BBC Science Focus
YOU'RE ONLY AS OLD AS YOU THINK
Your attitude towards ageing can reduce the toll time takes on your brain and body. It's a statement that sounds ridiculous, but the science backs it up. The question is: how much could a change of attitude change your life?
8 min |
September 2025
BBC Science Focus
All in one
Think back to the cell diagrams in your biology textbooks at school and you might recognise this.
1 min |
September 2025
BBC Science Focus
COULD SOMEONE ACROSS THE COSMOS PICK UP OLD RADIO PROGRAMMES?
Theoretically, the radio signals from our earliest broadcasts have been spreading outwards through space since the beginning of radio.
1 min |
September 2025
BBC Science Focus
DO ANY FOODS TASTE BETTER IN SPACE?
Not usually.
1 min |
September 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Turn mono Sun shots into fiery colour
A simple, free technique to take your solar images from greyscale to gold
3 min |
October 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Q&A WITH A FAST RADIO BURST EXPERT
A significant amount of the Universe's matter from the Big Bang is missing. Now scientists believe they've found it hiding between galaxies
3 min |
October 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Create a striking moonrise composite
Here's how to showcase the Moon's graceful ascent from the horizon
2 min |
October 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
FIELD OF VIEW
Let there be less light
2 min |
October 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Stargazing in the Atacama Desert
Becca Marsh tours Chile's high Atacama Desert - home to some of the darkest skies and most advanced astronomical observatories on the planet - and discovers a stargazing destination like no other
7 min |
October 2025
BBC Science Focus
THE PLATYPUS
When European scientists first set eyes on the platypus, in the form of a pelt and a sketch shipped over from Australia in 1798, they couldn't believe it.
2 min |
September 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Betelgeuse's companion star confirmed
Century-old mystery solved with direct detection of a binary to the famous variable star
1 min |
October 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
INSIDE THE SKY AT NIGHT
September's Sky at Night episode tackled the Hubble constant. George Dransfield considers how some of the cornerstones of science aren't as rock-solid as we thought
3 min |
October 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Earliest black hole discovered
The supermassive black hole dates from just 500 million years after the Big Bang
2 min |
October 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Possible planet found at Alpha Centauri A
If true, it would be the closest exoplanet ever found in a habitable zone
2 min |
October 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Titan's lakes could form protocells
Study shows conditions are right to create vesicles, key structures in the origin of life
1 min |
October 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
How to find a speck in space
New Horizons proves stellar parallax can locate a probe in the vastness, using the light of just two stars
4 min |
October 2025
BBC Science Focus
Some dog breeds are more at risk of overeating
Scientists can finally explain why certain breeds, such as labradors and retrievers, are more at risk of becoming loveable loaves
1 min |
September 2025
BBC Science Focus
An underground tomb might be hiding next to the Giza pyramids
It could be a hidden doorway, but experts aren't sure
1 min |
September 2025
BBC Science Focus
Eating eggs every day could lower your cholesterol
For years, eggs have been seen as a cholesterol culprit - but new research Suggests that reputation may be undeserved
1 min |
September 2025
BBC Science Focus
A massive earthquake may be brewing beneath North America
No one knows when it will strike... but everyone agrees it will be a huge rupture
2 min |
September 2025
BBC Science Focus
SHOCK THERAPY
Can a wearable neuromodulation device that delivers small electric shocks banish anxiety?
4 min |
September 2025
BBC Science Focus
Do pheromones control human attraction?
Could invisible chemical signals sway our behaviour, or who we're attracted to - all without us knowing?
4 min |
September 2025
BBC Science Focus
ASTRONOMY FROM THE FAR SIDE
THERE'S ONLY ONE PLACE TO GO IF WE WANT TO CATCH SIGHT OF THE COSMIC DAWN
7 min |
September 2025
BBC Science Focus
WHY IS MARS RED?
One of the most recognisable features of Mars is its red colour. Even the naked eye can clearly discern the Red Planet's ruddy hue. Humans have wondered where this red colour comes from for centuries, perhaps millennia.
1 min |
September 2025
BBC Science Focus
Cats get dementia too. And it could help us find a treatment
New research has found that felines develop dementia in a similar way to us, opening the door to further research
4 min |
September 2025
BBC Science Focus
Documentary reveals the science behind turtle mother calls
In the new BBC documentary Parenthood, baby turtles see sunlight for the first time and crawl towards their singing mothers
2 min |
September 2025
BBC Science Focus
The UK's new online age verification system has an unintended consequence
Psychologist Dr Sam Carr reveals how the new age checks are making us stop and think before accessing porn, and why our brains could thank us for it
5 min |
September 2025
BBC Science Focus
EDITOR'S PICKS...
This month's smartest tech
3 min |
September 2025
BBC Science Focus
HEATQuakes
Climate change isn't warming the planet, it's shaking Earth's foundations
8 min |
September 2025
BBC Science Focus
WAS THE SEA ALWAYS BLUE?
Our planet has had an ocean for around 3.8 billion years, but new research suggests it hasn't always been blue.
1 min |