Alice Lipscombe-Southwell

Production editor, BBC Focus

Alice Lipscombe-Southwell is the production editor at BBC Science Focus Magazine.

Recent articles by Alice Lipscombe-Southwell

Ancient human regularly climbed through the trees (GIF showing the double pillar of spongy bone in the head of the femur of the fossil StW 311 © Christopher Dunmore)

Ancient human regularly climbed through the trees

Ocean plastics smell like food to turtles © Getty Images

Ocean plastics smell like food to turtles

© G Hüdepohl/ESO

Eye on the sky The ground-based telescopes bringing the Universe down to Earth

Does science have a problem with women?

Everyday science

Why aren’t there more women in science?

Cuttlefish skimp on lunch when there’s shrimp for dinner © Pauline Billard

Cuttlefish skimp on lunch when there’s shrimp for dinner

Female chimps more likely to stay at home if they have a powerful mum © Emily Wroblewski

Female chimps more likely to stay at home if they have a powerful mum

Stimulated Raman histologic images of diffuse astrocytoma (left) and meningioma (right) © Daniel Orringer, NYU Langone Health

AI trained to spot brain tumours faster than humans

Jim Al-Khalili: Why should we care about science and scientists? © Getty Images

Everyday science

Jim Al-Khalili Why should we care about science and scientists?

Oldest evidence of insect pollination unearthed © Ding-hau Yang

Oldest evidence of insect pollination unearthed

Lightyear One: the first long-range solar-powered car © Lightyear One

Future Technology

Lightyear One The first long-range solar-powered car

Ancient human species recreated from DNA © Maayan Harel

Ancient human species recreated from DNA

A glowing swell shark. © David Gruber / iScience

Light shed on secrets of glow-in-the-dark sharks

Chimps' working memory

Chimps’ working memory “similar to seven-year-old children”

Premature birth affects relationships in adulthood © Getty Images

Premature birth affects relationships in adulthood

Blood-pressure drug has potential to help Alzheimer’s © American Heart Association

Blood-pressure drug has potential to help Alzheimer’s