BBC Science Focus
Is smoking or vaping worse for you? It depends who's asking
Research suggests vaping is one of the best ways to help smokers quit the habit. But that doesn't mean it's a harmless alternative to smoking
5 min |
April 2025
BBC Science Focus
Aaand breathe...
Can a magnetic nasal strip open your airways, improve your breathing and stop you snoring?
4 min |
April 2025
BBC Science Focus
Massive new energy source could be hiding in Earth's mountains
Hydrogen gas is generated along fault lines in a process that takes millions of years
1 min |
April 2025
BBC Science Focus
Beaches on Mars are clearest evidence of ancient life
They're not like those in the Caribbean, but the Red Planet's beaches may still have attracted microbial tourists
1 min |
April 2025
BBC Science Focus
Mach diamonds
This is the loud end of the X-59, a 'quiet' supersonic aircraft being developed by NASA and Lockheed Martin.
1 min |
April 2025
BBC Science Focus
We could soon end wrinkles and grey hair forever
Scientists believe they can fight signs of ageing by harnessing your hormones
1 min |
April 2025
BBC Science Focus
IDEAS WE LIKE...
Our pick of the month's smartest tech
3 min |
April 2025
BBC Science Focus
THE SECRETS OF THE INNER EARTH
Deep beneath our feet, at the border between Earth’s core and the mantle above, scientists are discovering a hidden world — another landscape with a surface almost as dynamic, dramatic and diverse as the one we live on
9 min |
April 2025
BBC Science Focus
Bunker Mentality
A growing number of concerned citizens are building subterranean emergency bunkers as a precaution against disaster. Should you join the underground movement? And if so, how?
9 min |
April 2025
BBC Science Focus
THE BLUEPRINT FOR TRUE RESILIENCE
Psychologists are now finding that mental flexibility, not pushing through at all costs, is the real key to perseverance
9 min |
April 2025
BBC Science Focus
WHAT MAKES TARDIGRADES SO INDESTRUCTIBLE?
Tardigrades, also known among their many fans as ‘water bears’ or ‘moss piglets’, are quite possibly the cutest microscopic creatures on the planet – and off it.
1 min |
April 2025
BBC Science Focus
SHOULD I GIVE MYSELF A COFFEE ENEMA?
Just when you thought TikTok couldn't come up with anything stranger, here comes the coffee enema. Yes, that's right — people are brewing up a fresh pot, and inserting it into their colon through their rectum to stimulate bowel movements. The trend claims to “detox” your body, boost energy and improve digestion.
1 min |
April 2025
BBC Science Focus
A VOLUME CONTROL FOR YOUR APPETITE
Can we turn down 'food noise' to make healthy eating easier?
3 min |
April 2025
BBC Science Focus
The race to find a better way to diagnose endometriosis is heating up
It's vital we improve our ability to identify cases of endometriosis, for the sake of women everywhere
3 min |
April 2025
BBC Science Focus
Screaming in the darkness
This award-winning picture captures two Asian sheepshead wrasse (Bodianus reticulatus) fighting to establish dominance.
1 min |
April 2025
BBC Science Focus
The colours of home
As hard as it might be to believe, this is the place we call home. Earth is the green ball glowing eerily on the right, and the galaxy where it – and the rest of the Solar System – resides, the Milky Way, is the swirling mass emerging from behind.
1 min |
April 2025
BBC Science Focus
Cycle syncing has the potential to change lives
Adapting to hormonal fluctuations throughout the menstrual cycle could be a secret weapon in the fight against breast cancer
5 min |
April 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Josh Smalley
Meet the chemist who loves to experiment in the kitchen.
3 min |
April 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Sutton Hoo
New research unlocks more secrets about an ancient buried ship and its treasure.
2 min |
April 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
MASTER THE UNIVERSE
Stuart Dredge tells the blockbusting story of the computer game Minecraft, and discovers how its creators put the power to create epic worlds at your fingertips.
6 min |
April 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
A new danger rating for deadly animals
A former student at the University of Reading, England, has created a scientific rating system that aims to answer the question of what the world's most dangerous animals are.
1 min |
April 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Pioneering therapies set to change lives
The first treatments that use gene editing are being trialled.
2 min |
April 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
You've got the power!
Melissa Hobson meets the inventors harnessing people power.
1 min |
April 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
OUR COSMIC HOME
Daisy Dobrijevic finds out more about our place in space, uncovering the secrets of the Milky Way, from its swirling arms to the monster lurking at its heart.
4 min |
April 2025
BBC Science Focus
Is creating a 'woolly mammoth mouse' a step too far for biotechnology?
Are scientists so preoccupied with whether or not they could bring back mammoths, that they're not concerned with whether they should?
4 min |
March 2025
BBC Science Focus
The simple recipe for making powerful astrophysical jets
You need just three ingredients to make these truly colossal 'double-sided lightsabers'
3 min |
March 2025
BBC Science Focus
A HITCH HIKER'S GUIDE TO THE QUANTUM WORLD
Quantum physics is confusing. Really confusing. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly confusing it is. Fortunately, scientists have been exploring it for years now and are, finally, beginning to make some sense of it all
9 min |
March 2025
BBC Science Focus
GOING DEEP
An advanced new research station is being developed to explore the potential for a human settlement under the ocean
4 min |
March 2025
BBC Science Focus
Fast radio bursts: Are these mysterious signals from deep space getting even stranger?
New discoveries are shaking up what little we thought we knew about fast radio bursts
5 min |
March 2025
BBC Science Focus
ARE SATELLITES BURNING UP IN THE ATMOSPHERE BAD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT?
About 13,000 satellites currently orbit Earth, roughly 10,000 of which are operational. But that number is set to skyrocket, with a staggering 50,000 new satellites on track to join them by 2030.
2 min |