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Alexander McNamara

Alexander McNamara

Online Editor, BBC Focus

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Alexander McNamara is the Online Editor at BBC Focus and is the one that keeps sciencefocus.com looking ship-shape and Bristol fashion. He has a very fetching beard, which is why he tweets from @AlBeardyEditor.

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Planet Earth

Earth Day Take a trip back to 1970 for the first Earth Day

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Everyday science

Science podcasts 11 excellent BBC podcasts to boost your brain

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BBC Focus Crossword
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BBC Focus Crossword solution #334

Space music: 10 of the best songs about space
Space

Space music 10 of the best songs about space

JSC2011-E-067645 (8 July 2011) --- The space shuttle Atlantis launches for the STS-135 mission to the International Space Station in the final mission of the Space Shuttle Program at NASA?s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Liftoff was at 11:29 a.m. (EDT) on July 8, 2011. Onboard are NASA astronauts Chris Ferguson, STS-135 commander; Doug Hurley, pilot; Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim, both mission specialists. Photo credit: NASA Photo/Houston Chronicle, Smiley N. Pool
Space

Final farewells Poignant last pictures from our most inspirational space missions

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The Human Body

Freddie Mercury Why did the Queen frontman sound so good?

The cool new gadgets test (Muse)
Future Technology

The cool new gadgets test Muse 2 meditation headband

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Future Technology

The cool gadgets list – January 2019

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Future Technology

Soylent: what’s the UK’s newest meal replacement shake all about?

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Future Technology

The cool gadgets list – December 2018

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Planet Earth

Four ways you can help tackle air pollution

Are you smart enough to be an ISS astronaut? (Tim Peake © ESA/NASA)
Space

Are you smart enough to be an ISS astronaut?

Festival Of The Spoken nerd © Rosemary Rance
Everyday science

Who says you can’t polish a nerd?

True or Poo? by Nick Caruso and Dani Rabaiotti is available now (£9.99, Quercus)
Nature

Can you separate the truth from the poop in these animal facts?