Alexander McNamara

Online Editor, BBC Science Focus

Alexander is the former Online Editor at BBC Science Focus.

Recent articles by Alexander McNamara

COVID-19: Scientists predict 3,500 deaths due to late cancer diagnosis © Getty Images

COVID-19: Scientists predict 3,500 deaths due to late cancer diagnosis

One of the first South African Oxford vaccine trialists looks on as a medical worker injects him with the clinical trial for a potential vaccine against the COVID-19 coronavirus at the Baragwanath hospital in Soweto, South Africa © Siphiwe Sibeko/AFP via Getty Images

Coronavirus Oxford vaccine shows 'strong antibody and T-cell immune response'

Synairgen drug 'prevents 79 per cent' of coronavirus cases progressing © Getty Images

Synairgen drug ‘prevents 79 per cent’ of coronavirus cases progressing

Rosalind Franklin: British scientist celebrated with commemorative 50p coin © The Royal Mint/PA

Rosalind Franklin British scientist celebrated with commemorative coin

Coronavirus vaccine: 105 people take part in Imperial COVID-19 trial (A researcher working on an vaccine for the 2019-nCoV strain of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, at Imperial College School of Medicine (ICSM) in London © Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images)

Coronavirus vaccine 105 people take part in Imperial COVID-19 trial

Twitter hack- What happened? © Dominic Lipinski/PA

Twitter hack What happened and should I be worried?

The government's contact tracing app © Steve Parsons/PA

Isle of Wight COVID-19 cases ‘rapidly declined’ after test and trace launch

The prolonged heat has driven wildfires in Siberia © Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service/AP

Climate change Siberia heatwave ‘effectively impossible’ without human activity

Oxford vaccine: Early trials suggest

Oxford vaccine Early trials suggest "double protection" from coronavirus

Global population predicted to peak by 2064 © Getty Images

Global population predicted to peak by 2064

Llamas © Getty Images

COVID-19 Llama-based antibody treatment 'neutralises' virus

Synairgen drug 'prevents 79 per cent' of coronavirus cases progressing © Getty Images

Coronavirus Antibody immunity could last 'just months'

High intake of fruit and veg 'reduces Type-2 diabetes risk by 50 per cent' © Getty Images

High intake of fruit and veg ‘reduces Type-2 diabetes risk by 50 per cent’

Dromaeosaurid dinosaurs not only lived in the Arctic 'but thrived there' (An artist impression of dromaeosaurid dinosaurs © Andrey Atuchin/Plos One))

Dromaeosaurid dinosaurs ‘not only lived in the Arctic but thrived there’

20 per cent chance of missing Paris climate target in next five years © Getty Images

20 per cent chance of missing Paris Agreement climate target in next five years