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

How do I watch tonight's Eta Aquariid meteor shower? © Getty Images

How do I watch tonight’s Eta Aquariid meteor shower?

Thought-controlled bionic arm with sense of touch ‘could be available in two years’ © Johan Bodell/Chalmers University of Technology

Thought-controlled bionic arm with sense of touch ‘could be available in two years’

'Potentially hazardous' asteroid to pass Earth today (at a safe distance) © Arecibo Observatory/NASA/NSF/PA

‘Potentially hazardous’ asteroid to pass Earth today (at a safe distance)

Coronavirus: 6,000 patients volunteer blood plasma for trial © Kirsty Hamilton/NHSBT/PA

Coronavirus 6,000 patients volunteer blood plasma for trial

British people are starting to ignore lockdown rules, according to mobile phone data © Jonathan Brady/PA

British people ‘starting to ignore lockdown rules’ according to mobile phone data

27 per cent drop in world's insect population 'absolutely intolerable', say scientists © Getty Images

Over a quarter of land-dwelling insects lost in the last 30 years

Birds cool their beaks when food is scarce to save energy © Getty Images

Birds cool their beaks when food is scarce to save energy

Ancient land-based crocodiles evolved to be more like whales © Dmitry Bogdanov/PA

Ancient land-based crocodiles evolved to be more like whales

NASA astronaut launches to resume in United States from May © Alex Gallardo/AP

NASA to resume launching astronauts from US soil

Coronavirus: contact tracing app could stop spread if 80 per cent use it © Getty Images

Coronavirus: contact tracing app could stop spread if 80 per cent use it

Climate models 'missing half of the melting' in Greenland ice © Kevin Krajick/Columbia University’s The Earth Institute

Climate models ‘missing half of the melting’ in Greenland ice

Coronavirus transmitted two to three days before symptoms show © Getty Images

Coronavirus transmitted two to three days before symptoms show

COVID-19: What's the UK's exit strategy out of lockdown? © Yui Mok/PA

COVID-19 What's the UK's exit strategy out of lockdown?

40,000-year-old yarn was woven by Neanderthals © The Centre for Research and Restoration of the Museums of France

40,000-year-old yarn suggests Neanderthals had basic maths skills

Merging stars cause brightest supernova ever seen © Northwestern University/PA

Merging stars cause brightest supernova ever seen