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

Rehab vital for 'long COVID' patients, says expert © Getty Images

Rehab vital for ‘long COVID’ patients, says expert

COVID-19: Have we been treating the disease wrong?

Reality Check Have we been treating COVID-19 wrong?

Newly discovered mass extinction paved the way for dinosaurs © Getty Images

Newly discovered mass extinction paved the way for dinosaurs

Shoebox-sized coronavirus test kit gives results in just 90 minutes © Imperial College London

Shoebox-sized coronavirus test kit gives results in just 90 minutes

I will survive: Giant exoplanet intact after star's death © NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

I will survive Giant exoplanet intact after star's death

9 things you didn't know about dogs, according to science © Getty Images

9 facts you didn't know about dogs, according to science

Heart disease: Patients dealt 'double blow' in pandemic, expert warns © Getty Images

Heart disease Patients dealt 'double blow' in pandemic, expert says

RECOVERY trial: 2,000 patients to receive coronavirus antibody therapy © Getty Images

RECOVERY trial 2,000 patients to receive coronavirus antibody therapy

Possible signs of alien life detected in Venus’s atmosphere © ESO / M. Kornmesser / L. Calçada & NASA / JPL / Caltech

Possible signs of alien life detected in Venus’s atmosphere

Oxford coronavirus vaccine: Trials resume after pause © Getty Images

Oxford coronavirus vaccine Trials resume after pause

Shoebox-sized satellites built in the UK to be launched this month © ESA

Shoebox-sized satellites built in the UK to be launched this month

COVID-19 immunity 'declines sharply' a month after hospital discharge © Getty Images

COVID-19 immunity ‘declines sharply’ a month after hospital discharge

Counterfeit whiskies can now be identified using lasers © Getty Images

Counterfeit whiskies can now be identified using lasers

Oxford coronavirus vaccine: Why have trials paused? © Sean Elias/University of Oxford

Oxford coronavirus vaccine Why have trials paused?

'Culturally competent' robot improves mental health in the elderly © University of Bedfordshire/PA

‘Culturally competent’ robot improves mental health in the elderly