BBC Science Focus Magazine

With accessible features illustrated with the world’s best photography, BBC Focus Magazine explains the theory behind scientific phenomena and really brings science to life. In every issue you’ll find news of the latest major scientific developments, a lively Q&A section plus exclusive and astonishing photographic reports that range from the breathtaking to the downright odd.

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GLP-1s might slow the pace of biological ageing • GLP-1 drugs are best known for treating diabetes and obesity, but could they also help to slow down how we age?

Mercury is shrinking faster than anyone thought • Wrinkles on the surface provide clues to the planet’s previous size

‘Simply astonishing’: Experts just found a massive lost civilisation hiding in the Amazon • Millions of people may have once inhabited the rainforest, according to experts

An everyday pill could cut dementia risk in diabetics • The pill could reduce risk by up to 15 per cent

Three simple changes could give you 13 more years without dementia • Making healthy choices in middle age could increase your cognitive health much later in life

We may finally know why it’s so hard to lose weight • A mouse study has found that ‘obesity memory’ in immune cells may be holding back fat loss

Scientists just buried 2,000 pairs of underpants. Here’s why • Many pants were found to be falling to pieces - but that’s not a bad thing

Experts have found an enormous volcano lurking under England • 454 million years ago, an eruption as powerful as several thousand hydrogen bombs tore through the English east coast

A striking image of a space predator wins top astronomy prize • Is it a shark or is it a nebula? Both, as it turns out

The secret to creativity may lie in the ‘dark triad’ of personality traits • A new study claims we’ve yet to solve the mystery of creativity because we haven’t explored the role that narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy might play in it

Do we really need to worry about a data centre boom? • Opposition is mounting against the giant resource-hungry AI facilities in the US. But many of them may never actually be built

Age might not be the only factor linked to low testosterone • Testosterone replacement therapy is big business. But recent research suggests we’re not sure what’s behind the problem it claims to solve

THE ASTRONAUT WEARS PRADA • The famous Italian fashion brand is going from catwalks to spacewalks

ONE OF THESE ELECTRIC TRUCKS MIGHT BE IN YOUR FUTURE • Forget the imposing pick-up trucks of today. The ‘ute’ of the future is smaller, friendlier and cheaper

EDITOR’S PICKS… • This month’s smartest tech

BRAIN BOX • Partially resurrected brains are ushering a new era of drug testing

IT’S IN THE BLOOD • I HAD MY BLOOD ANALYSED BY FIVE DIGITAL HEALTH COMPANIES. WHAT THEY FOUND COULD CHANGE OR EVEN EXTEND MY LIFE, JUST AS LONG AS I DON’T DROP DEAD FROM WORRY FIRST

HITTING THE GROUND RUNNING • Several records were broken at this year’s World Humanoid Robot Games. But almost every success was matched by an equally spectacular failure. As AI races forward, it begs the question: why can’t the robots keep up?

TIMING IS EVERYTHING • Take two identical sandwiches. Eat one at midday and the other at midnight and they’re no longer identical. Welcome to the world of Chrononutrition

WHAT TEMPERATURE DOES WATER FREEZE AT? • It’s a simple question. But in scientific circles there’s a...