BBC Focus

BBC Focus is a British monthly magazine about science and technology published in Bristol, UK by Origin Publishing. Edited by Jheni Osman, it covers all aspects of science and technology and is written for general readers as well as people with a knowledge of science. The magazine was taken over by the BBC in mid-2005 which has led to most issues featuring an article which corresponds with a BBC television series. There are also regular celebrity features and interviews. The magazine's ABC figures for July-December 2007 were around 65,000, a ten per cent rise year-on-year. As of issue #173, The Guide section of the magazine had a small redesign with increased focus on interactive media, with newly separate sections for Games reviews and the web including a new column on web issues such as collaborative video editing with the header 'Happening'. In 2006, an article in BBC Focus assessed four online encyclopaedias, including Wikipedia. An expert on bird flu looked at the entries in... full article at wikipedia