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

COVID-19: 'Concerning increase' in rare brain inflammation © Getty Images

COVID-19: ‘Concerning increase’ in rare brain inflammation

Animals that fake their deep voices are 'skilled sound learners' © Getty Images

Animals that fake their deep voices are ‘skilled sound learners’

Scientists discover ancestral origins of tequila bat © Getty ImagesScientists discover ancestral origins of tequila bat © Getty Images

Tequila bats’ ancestral origins revealed by conservationists

Brain haemorrhage treatment halves risk of cognitive disability in premature babies © Getty Images

Brain haemorrhage treatment halves risk of cognitive disability in premature babies

Faster-than-light travel: Is warp drive really possible? © Alamy

Reality Check Is warp drive really possible?

New trick to calculate your old dog's age © Getty Images

New trick to calculate your old dog’s age

COVID-19: Undetected type of immunity 'twice as common' as antibodies © Getty Images

COVID-19 Public immunity ‘significantly higher’ than tests suggest

Wanted dead or alive: 'Monster star' vanishes without a trace © L Calçada/ESO/PA

Wanted dead or alive: ‘Monster star’ vanishes without a trace

Biodegradable scaffolds help infertile rabbits have normal pregnancy © Getty Images

Biodegradable scaffolds help infertile rabbits have normal pregnancy

Adelie penguins are more successful with less sea ice © Getty Images

Adelie penguins are more successful with less sea ice

Mysterious object may be smallest black hole ever found © Alex Andrix/Virgo/EGO

Mysterious object may be smallest black hole ever found

An illustration of what a black hole with an accretion disk © Getty Images

Researchers verify ‘extremely odd’ black hole physics

Coronavirus: Scottish sewage tested to track spread of COVID-19 © Getty Images

Coronavirus Scottish sewage tested to track spread of COVID-19

Seek and destroy: beneficial bacteria programmed to fight cancer © Getty Images

Personalised cancer vaccine ‘activates immune system’ in early trials

COVID-19: South Asian people at highest risk of death © Getty Images

COVID-19 South Asian people at highest risk of death