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

When bees can’t see, the humble bumble can make do with a fumble (Bees performing cross model object recognition test © Lars Chittka/Queen Mary University of London)

When bees can’t see, the humble bumble can make do with a fumble

Revolutionary new valve could save children from repeated open-heart surgery © Sophie C Hofferberth/Boston Children’s Hospital

Revolutionary new valve could save children from repeated open-heart surgery

Shanidar skeleton discovery sheds light on neanderthal burial rites (The ribs and spine of the Neanderthal emerging from the sediment in Shanidar Cave © Graeme Barker Cambridge University/PA)

Shanidar skeleton discovery sheds light on Neanderthal ‘flower burial’

Australian researchers develop 'British wealth proof' solar cells © Getty Images

Australian researchers develop ‘British-weatherproof’ solar cells

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos speaks after receiving the 2019 International Astronautical Federation (IAF) Excellence in Industry Award during the the 70th International Astronautical Congress at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC on October 22, 2019 © MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Amazon boss pledges $10bn of his $100bn+ fortune to tackle climate change

super fun DIY science experiments to try at home with the kids © Getty Images

Everyday science

15 super fun DIY science experiments to try at home with the kids this half term

SETI begins search for 'technosignatures' in the hunt for alien life © Getty Images

SETI begins search for ‘technosignatures’ in the hunt for alien life

Dr Becky Smethurst: How do you actually find a black hole? (A simulation of plasma flow at the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, which lies at the centre of the Milky Way. © J. Davelaar, M. Moscibrodzka, T. Bronzwaer & H. Falcke/Radboud Univ)

Dr Becky Smethurst How do you actually find a black hole?

For bees, the sweeter the nectar, the harder to vomit © Getty Images

For bees, the sweeter the nectar, the harder to vomit

Computer simulation of planets forming in a protoplanetary disc around a red dwarf star © University of Central Lancashire

Protoplanetary discs swirling around new stars offer clue to ‘fast and furious’ gas giant mystery

Star Wars fans rejoice! Disney+ coming to the UK in March © Disney:PA

Star Wars fans rejoice! Disney+ coming to the UK in March

Clam shell study issues dire warning over Arctic sea ice melt © Getty Images

Clam shell study issues dire warning over Arctic sea ice melt

Being an ambidextrous squirrel better than being one with a strong hand preference © Getty Images

Paw control Squirrels with hand preference ‘less efficient at learning new tasks'

Oculus Quest

Future Technology

Oculus Quest VR goes wireless, now with hand-tracking

Prehistoric scorpion one of the first creatures to scuttle onto dry land (New species of prehistoric scorpion may have been early land explorer © Andrew Wendruff/PA)

Prehistoric scorpion one of the first creatures to scuttle onto dry land