Alexander McNamara

Online Editor, BBC Science Focus

Alexander is the former Online Editor at BBC Science Focus.

Recent articles by Alexander McNamara

Sleep technology: best sleep gadgets to help you nod off © Getty Images

Future Technology

Sleep tech 21 gadgets to help you nod off and wake up refreshed

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

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