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

Ban virtual loot boxes from video games to protect children, NHS mental health director says © Getty Images

Ban virtual loot boxes from video games to protect children, NHS mental health director says

Even stray dogs understand human gestures, study finds © Getty Images

Even stray dogs understand human gestures, study finds

Cervical cancer: free vaccination and change to smear tests could eliminate disease © Getty Images

Cervical cancer: free vaccination and change to smear tests could eliminate disease

Potential second exoplanet discovered orbiting closest star to the Sun © Lorenzo Santinelli/Science Advances

Potential second exoplanet discovered orbiting closest star to the Sun

Neanderthals collected shells at the beach, just like us © Villa et al 2020/PA

Neanderthals collected shells at the beach, just like us

Marcel Danesi: Why do we want to believe lies? © Getty Images

Marcel Danesi Why do we want to believe lies?

Pet Shop Boys or Snoop Dog? Spotify releases personalised pet playlists © Getty Images

Pet Shop Boys or Snoop Dogg? Spotify releases personalised pet playlists

Northern white rhino embryo could save all-female subspecies from extinction © Ben Curtis/AP

Northern white rhino embryo could save all-female subspecies from extinction

Star visible to naked eye reveals history of Milky Way Galaxy © NASA

Star visible to naked eye reveals history of Milky Way Galaxy

Major Tim Peake plants trees grown from space-faring seeds © ProfImages/PA

Major Tim Peake plants trees grown from space-faring seeds

'Sugar tax' drives down sugar content in soft drinks, study finds © Getty Images

‘Sugar tax’ drives down sugar content in soft drinks, study finds

Kathryn D. Sullivan: What is it really like to walk in space? © NASA

Kathryn D Sullivan What is it really like to walk in space?

Scientists give cuttlefish 3D glasses to test their eyesight © R Feord/PA

Scientists give cuttlefish 3D glasses to test their eyesight

Regular tea drinking associated with longer life (but only if it’s green tea) © Getty Images

Regular tea drinking associated with longer life (but only if it’s green tea)

Linguistics: 7 language science books to help you finally understand what comes out of your mouth © Getty Images

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Linguistics 7 brilliant books about language science