Alexander McNamara

Online Editor, BBC Science Focus

Alexander is the former Online Editor at BBC Science Focus.

Recent articles by Alexander McNamara

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

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

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