Jess is a freelance journalist covering science, health, culture and lifestyle.

We can’t help but wonder what ideas we’ll be talking about in the decades to come… presumably while sitting in a bar on the Moon, sipping anti-ageing, dark matter martinis.

How we're about to solve the world’s greatest archaeological puzzle Artificial intelligence is helping archaeologists unlock Earth’s oldest secrets.

The Mediterranean diet may help you live longer, especially if you also adopt the lifestyle of people living near the Med during the 1950s. Characterised by a high intake of plant-based foods and ...

Thomas is Digital editor at BBC Science Focus. Writing about everything from cosmology to anthropology, he specialises in the latest psychology, health and neuroscience discoveries. Thomas has a ...

Here’s the best way to respond to an insult, according to science 'I know you are, but what am I?' is surely the best comeback of all time.

Cancer in remission usually means that, after some treatment, there are no signs of cancer in the body. Cancer cells might still be there, but they might be too few to find, too few to cause any ...

Shipwrecking ‘rogue waves’ are raging through our oceans. And they have scientists puzzled Extreme waves have recently sank cruise ships and fishing vessels .

Prof Neil Johnson Neil is a professor of physics at George Washington University in Washington, DC. In 2016, he and his colleagues published a paper in the journal Science that used complex models to ...

Tom Howarth Tom is trends editor at BBC Science Focus. He obtained an MPhil degree in advanced chemical engineering from the University of Cambridge, where he conducted research into amyloid protein ...

Mother Earth, Gaia, the third rock from the Sun - whatever you call it, this 4.5 billion-year-old planet is the one that we and all known living creatures call home.