Alice Lipscombe-Southwell

Managing editor, BBC Science Focus

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

Recent articles by Alice Lipscombe-Southwell

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

This image shows a whole-heart view of the 3D reconstructed male rat heart, showing the extent and distribution of the intrinsic cardiac neurons © Achanta et al. - iScience

Virtual 3D recreation of the heart reveals nerve cells network

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