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Welcome to our 400th issue!
Don’t worry, I’m not about to bore you with a tedious trip down memory lane. I enjoy nostalgia as much as the next person, but droning on about the past just didn’t seem right for a magazine that’s been navigating the bleeding-edge of science and technology for over three decades. No, it only seemed right to look forward, as we always have, to the future. So, that’s exactly what we’ve done for this issue! Inside, we’ve explored some of the subjects that have been most popular with you – our readers – in the format that’s been most popular: a great, big Q&A.
Of course, we haven’t been exhaustive. We need to leave something for the next 400 issues. But we’d like to think we’ve mixed together a great science cocktail for you to enjoy over the start of the new year.
Naturally, there wouldn’t be 400 issues without you, the readers. However you’ve engaged with us over the years – via print, online or through our podcast – you are the reason we exist. So rather than us tell you about the last 400 issues, we’d really love to hear what the magazine has meant to you over the years, and what you might like to see more of in the future. Either find us on your favourite social media website, whether that’s Facebook, X (formerly Twitter) or Instagram, or just fire us an email at reply@sciencefocus.com.
Hope you enjoy the issue, and here’s to 400 more!
ON THE BBC THIS MONTH...
Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster One of the most formidable predators the planet has ever seen, hunted just off the coast of Dorset. Sir David joins fossil experts to excavate a giant skull belonging to a pliosaur, the T.rex of the sea, to tell the story of the UK’s preshistoric era.
BBC One, 1 January Also available on BBC iPlayer
Just One Long Thing If you can’t get enough of Michael Mosley’s brief-but-brilliant looks at the changes that can lead to a healthier lifestyle, you’re in luck. In this special series, he dives deeper into them, starting with the pursuit of happiness.
BBC Radio 4, 1 January, 12pm Also available on BBC Sounds
Obsessed with the Quest Rounding out a bumper day of science on the BBC is this new series. It shares tales of dangerous expeditions with narrow escapes, told first-hand by the scientists and naturalists chasing big breakth
