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BBC Science Focus is the BBC’s science and technology monthly magazine. Jargon-free and accessible, you don’t need a PhD in particle physics to enjoy reading it. All you need is a quizzical mind that wants to understand the world around you, and gain a fact or two to keep up your sleeve in a pub quiz emergency.

Inside the experiment that could bring psychedelic drugs to the NHS © Getty Images

Inside the experiment that could bring psychedelic drugs to the NHS

Money: Does the internet need ads? © Anson Chan

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Why the internet can survive without ads

Mental health: Social media has teeth, but how can we decide if it needs to be tamed? © Getty Images

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Why scientists don’t actually know if social media is bad for you

Ctrl, Alt, Delete: Can we make the internet great again, or is it a lost cause? © Anson Chan

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How to make the internet great again… according to the experts

Breaking up the power: Does the internet’s future have to depend on a handful of megacorps? © Anson Chan

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Breaking up the power: Does the internet’s future have to depend on a handful of megacorps?

Tim Berners-Lee: Can we protect future generations' internet privacy? © CERN

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Interview Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee thinks his creation is out of control. Here's his plan to save it

Bullying: How to slay the social media trolls © Anson Chan

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Meet the app developer creating a simple tool that could slay all online trolls

Disinformation: Can we slow the tide of fake news? © Anson Chan

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The simple reasons online disinformation may never be fixed

Polarisation on social media: The tools that can smash our echo chambers © Anson Chan

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Social networks are built to turn us against each other. Can we fix them?

Extremism: How physics can stop radicalisation © Anson Chan

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How a “new kind of physics” could track down extremists online

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The plans to build a Martian mega city you’d actually want to travel 300 million km to live in

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Why snow days are still vital in a post-COVID world

A picture taken on April 9, 2021 in Saignelegier shows a horse being airlifted during a test by Swiss army forces on hoisting horses with a helicopter. - The scientific project, carried out by the Vetsuisse faculty of veterinary medicine and the Swiss army veterinary service, aims at transporting and rapidly evacuating injured horses to a medical veterinary infrastructure. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

Foals rush in where angels fear to tread: Swiss military test helicopter horse evacuation procedure

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21 incredible pictures from the Bird Photographer of the Year 2021