Alice Lipscombe-Southwell

Managing editor, BBC Science Focus

Alice Lipscombe-Southwell is the managing editor at BBC Science Focus Magazine. Her interests include natural history, wildlife, the outdoors, health and fitness.

Recent articles by Alice Lipscombe-Southwell

Ireland’s first-ever dinosaurs discovered © Getty Images

Ireland’s first-ever dinosaurs discovered

How can I see the Leonid meteor shower this week? © Getty Images

How can I see the Leonid meteor shower this week?

Everything you ever wanted to know about... the deep sea with Dr Jon Copley © Getty Images

Everything you ever wanted to know about… the deep sea with Dr Jon Copley

How do I see the rare Halloween blue Moon? © Getty Images

How do I see the rare Halloween blue Moon?

How can I see tonight's Orionid meteor shower? © Getty Images

How can I see tonight’s Orionid meteor shower?

How can I see the Draconid meteor shower tonight?

How can I see the Draconid meteor shower tonight?

New discovery could change shark evolution ©Getty

Sharks may have evolved bones and lost them again

Reef manta rays make long-term use of protected areas © Amelia J. Armstrong and colleagues

Reef manta rays make long-term use of protected areas

COVID-19 vaccine ready in first half of 2021 if trials go 'really well' © Getty Images

COVID-19: Who should get a vaccine first?

Birds and reptiles cry tears just like our own © Arianne P. Oriá

Birds and reptiles cry tears just like our own

Dogs trained to sniff out patients with COVID-19 (Coronavirus sniffing Labrador Frida © Kerstin Thellmann

Dogs trained to sniff out patients with COVID-19

Ultra-black deep-sea fish have skin that can absorb 99.9 per cent of light © Karen Osborn, Smithsonian

Ultra-black deep-sea fish have skin that can absorb 99.9 per cent of light

Wasp ‘bodyguards’ could be used as biological pesticide © Getty Images

Wasp ‘bodyguards’ could be used as biological pesticide

China's manned submersible Shenhai Yongshi (or Deep-sea Warrior) © Sun Qing/Getty Images

Toxic mercury pollution found in the ocean’s deepest point

A flexible diet is the key for fish adapting to life out of the water © Terry Ord

A flexible diet is the key for fish adapting to life out of the water