After fifteen years as an engineer, Peter now works as a science journalist.

Rebecca is an archaeologist and author. She’s an honorary research associate and honorary fellow at the Universities of Cambridge and Liverpool.

Scientists have developed an eco-friendly alternative to palm oil that could be on the market by the end of 2025. Palm oil – along with other tropical oils such as shea, coconut oil, cocoa butter and ...

Move over Happy Feet, there’s a new adorable dancing animal in town: a recent study has found that baby loggerhead turtles perform a lively and downright adorable jig when their favourite feeding ...

James Cutmore is the picture editor of BBC Science Focus Magazine. He has worked on the magazine and website for over a decade, telling compelling science stories through the use of striking imagery.

What could a future free of men look like? We could soon find out. According to recent research, the Y chromosome, the crucial factor that determines if someone is male, is starting to fail. In fact, ...

Researchers have discovered two large ancient cities, a breakthrough that sheds more light on civilisations that existed over 1,000 years ago. Found 2,000 metres (6,561 feet) above sea level in ...

When Mount Vesuvius, the massive volcano in southern Italy, erupted in 79 AD, residents had no time to escape before showers of ash and rock buried them forever. However, new research reveals that ...

It’s normal to be lactose intolerant. Mammals evolved to be able to drink their mother’s milk until weaning, when the gene that breaks down lactose into simpler sugars that can be readily absorbed is ...

Our views of human nature shape almost everything we do as a society. It informs who heal or ignore. Who we protect or persecute. And no view of human nature has done more harm than ‘survival of the ...

An electron is a tiny, negatively charged particle that whizzes round the atomic nucleus. That’s been clear since its discovery by the British physicist J. J. Thomson in 1897. But 30 years later, his ...

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