James Lloyd

Staff writer, BBC Science Focus

James Lloyd is staff writer at BBC Science Focus magazine. He especially enjoys writing about wellbeing and psychology.

Recent articles by James Lloyd

'Third thumb' human augmentation rewires the brain © Dani Clode/daniclode.com/instagram @dani_clode

Future Technology

‘Third thumb’ human augmentation rewires the brain

Coronavirus: can herd immunity protect us from COVID-19? © Getty Images

Reality Check Can herd immunity protect us from COVID-19?

Planet Nine could be a grapefruit-sized black hole, say astrophysicists © M Weiss

Planet Nine could be a grapefruit-sized black hole, say astrophysicists

Is the coronavirus airborne? © Getty Images

Reality check Is the coronavirus airborne?

Meet the ‘tiny bug slayer’, a coffee-cup-sized relative of the dinosaurs (Illustration of Kongonaphon kely, a newly described reptile near the ancestry of dinosaurs and pterosaurs, in what would have been its natural environment in the Triassic (~237 million years ago) © Alex Boersma)

Meet the ‘tiny bug slayer’, a coffee-cup-sized relative of the dinosaurs

Jupiter-like exoplanet orbits its star in only 18 hours © University of Warwick/Mark Garlick/PA

Naked gas giant offers first ever glimpse of a planetary core

Photo (top) and 3D reconstruction using microtomography (bottom) of the miniature bird sculpture. Its production combined four different techniques (abrasion, gouging, scraping and incision), which left 68 microfacets on the surface of the object © Francesco d'Errico and Luc Doyon

13,000-year-old miniature bird sculpture ‘oldest work of art’ to be found in China

Revealed: the last supper of an armoured dinosaur © Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology

Revealed: the last supper of an armoured dinosaur

Mysterious Martian landforms made by mud, not lava © Petr Brož (Czech Academy of Sciences)

Mysterious Martian landforms made by mud, not lava

'Virgin birth’ gene identified in honeybees (A 'Super Cape ' worker (black in centre) is nearly as big as a Capensis queen (with white disc). © Professor Benjamin Oldroyd/University of Sydney

‘Virgin birth’ gene identified in honeybees

5 mental health apps to help you through the coronavirus crisis © Getty Images

5 mental health apps to help you through the coronavirus crisis

Mouse brain mapped with single-cell resolution © Allen Institute for Brain Science

Mouse brain mapped with single-cell resolution

Is the Betelgeuse star about to explode? © Getty Images

Reality Check Is the Betelgeuse star about to explode?

Origins of human language stretch back 25 million years © Getty Images

Origins of human language stretch back 25 million years

Lemurs create a fruity fragrance to attract mates © Chigusa Tanaka, Japan Monkey Centre

Lemurs create a fruity fragrance to attract mates