Sara Rigby

Online assistant, BBC Science Focus

Sara is the online assistant at BBC Science Focus. She has an MPhys in mathematical physics and loves all things space, dinosaurs and dogs.

Recent articles by Sara Rigby

What animals are on David Attenborough's Life in Colour episode 1? © BBC/Humble BeeFilms/SeaLight Pictures

What animals are on David Attenborough’s Life in Colour episode 1?

What is polarised light? © PiccoloNamek, CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/), via Wikimedia Commons

Everyday science

What is polarised light?

Extreme annual fires reduce forests' ability to store carbon © Getty Images

Extreme annual fires reduce forests’ ability to store carbon

Pfizer vaccine: 'High number of antibodies' after two doses © Getty Images

1 in 7 people in England have COVID-19 antibodies from vaccination or infection

Elon Musk's Starlink gives

Elon Musk’s Starlink gives “amazing” broadband to UK villages

Video: Watch NASA's Perseverance rover land on Mars © NASA/PA

Video: Watch NASA’s Perseverance rover land on Mars

The science of why sea shanties are so catchy © Getty Images

Everyday science

The science of why sea shanties are so catchy

Home gardens are pollinating insects' biggest source of food © Getty Images

Your garden is a lifeline for struggling urban bees

Here's how YOU can apply to become an astronaut © ESA/PA

Here’s how YOU can apply to become one of ESA’s newest astronauts

Eating spinach could protect astronauts from space radiation, study suggests © Getty Images

Eating spinach could protect astronauts from space radiation, study suggests

Long COVID cases could be as high as 20 per cent © Getty Images

Up to 20 per cent of coronavirus patients may develop long COVID

Mental health and your brain: What happens when it goes wrong © Getty Images

Podcast Mental health and your brain: What happens when it goes wrong

COVID-19: Bristol variant could infect people who have been vaccinated © Getty Images

COVID-19: Bristol variant could infect people who have been vaccinated

Palaeolithic musical instrument played for the first time in 17,000 years © Carole Fritz/Gilles Tosello

Palaeolithic musical instrument played for the first time in 17,000 years

10 amazing women in science history you really should know about

Everyday science

22 pioneering women in science history you really should know about