Alexander McNamara

Online Editor, BBC Science Focus

Alexander is the Online Editor at BBC Science Focus and is the one that keeps sciencefocus.com looking shipshape and Bristol fashion. He has been toying around with news, technology and science on the internet for well over a decade, and sports a very fetching beard.

Recent articles by Alexander McNamara

Mars: Oodles of facts, figures and fun questions about the Red Planet © JPL/NASA/STScI

Mars Oodles of facts, figures and fun questions about the Red Planet

57 cool gadgets- our pick of the best new tech for 2020 (Moto 360 smartwatch)

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59 cool gadgets: our pick of the best new tech for 2020

More than half of British men exhibit 'sedentary behaviours' © Getty Images

More than half of British men exhibit ‘sedentary behaviours’

Greenland's ice sheet melted at a rate equivalent to 'six Olympic-sized swimming pools every second' last year © Getty Images

Greenland’s ice sheet melted at a rate equivalent to ‘six Olympic-sized swimming pools every second’ last year

Earliest example of abstract British art discovered in Jersey (The plaquettes are thought to have been made by the Magdalenians © Trustees of the Natural History Museum)

Earliest example of abstract British art discovered in Jersey

Researchers to explore link between coronavirus lockdown and allergies © Getty Images

Researchers to explore link between coronavirus lockdown and allergies

429-million-year-old trilobite eye fossil 'almost identical to that of modern bees' (Researchers used digital microscopy to re-examine a fossilised trilobite © Brigitte Schoenemann/University of Cologne)

429-million-year-old trilobite eye fossil ‘almost identical to that of modern bees’

Project Discovery: Can computer games help find a cure for COVID-19? © CCP Games

Project Discovery Could computer games help find a cure for COVID-19?

COVID-19: Children play 'limited role' in coronavirus pandemic (Children maintain social distancing measures while taking part in a lesson at Earlham Primary School © Justin Setterfield/Getty Images)

COVID-19 Children play 'limited role' in coronavirus pandemic

Evolution of primate larynx faster than in other mammals © Getty Images

Evolution of primate larynx faster than in other mammals

New species of dinosaur discovered on Isle of Wight (Artists impression of the dinosaurs final moments c Trudie Wilson/PA)

New dinosaur species discovered on the Isle of Wight a relative of Tyrannosaurus rex

Bird behaviour revealed using Alan Turing's mathematical models © Getty Images

Bird behaviour revealed using Alan Turing’s mathematical models

Nation's favourite cod and chips at climate change risk © Getty Images

National favourite, cod and chips, at climate change risk

Climate change: Record-breaking summers ‘a danger to human health’ © Getty Images

Climate change Record-breaking summers ‘a danger to human health’

Drinking in pubs creates

Drinking in pubs creates “perfect storm” for spreading coronavirus