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

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

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