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Alan Boyle

Puzzling over pre-humans

20 hrs ago

Posted: Monday, October 06, 2008 9:43 AM by Alan Boyle Dave Einsel / Getty Images file A sculptor's rendering, part of an exhibit focusing on the 3.2-million- year-old hominid called Lucy, shows how she might have looked in...

Cosmic Log: What's that in Apollos?

Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: How much will $700 billion get you? The widely publicized cost of the financial bailout is equal to 7 Apollo programs, according to our mega-money conversion chart.

Cosmic Log: Hubble’s heavenly heritage

Posted: Thursday, October 02, 2008 6:40 PM by Alan Boyle N. Smith / UCB / NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage An image released to mark the 10th anniversary of the Hubble Heritage Project highights a cosmic landscape in the...

Why space is expanding

Quantum fluctuations in space, science, exploration and other cosmic fields... served up regularly by MSNBC.com science editor Alan Boyle since 2002. Alan Boyle covers the physical sciences, anthro...

Fun with numbers on the Web

ABOUT COSMIC LOG Quantum fluctuations in space, science, exploration and other cosmic fields... served up regularly by MSNBC.com science editor Alan Boyle since 2002. Alan Boyle covers the physical sciences, anthropology,...

Federal judge dismisses doomsday lawsuit

Sep 27, 2008

Posted: Friday, September 26, 2008 11:56 PM by Alan Boyle A hardhat worker is dwarfed by the Large Hadron Collider's ATLAS detector during construction. A federal judge in Hawaii today dismissed a lawsuit raising fears...

Times-Picayune reporters win $20,000 prize for "Last Chance" series

National AcademiesBob Marshall, Mark Schleifstein, Dan Swenson, and Ted Jackson of the Times-Picayune win the 2008 National Academies Communication Award in the newspaper/magazine category. MSNBC.com science editor Alan...

Cosmic Log: Good company

With support from the W.M. Keck Foundation, the National Academies Communication Awards "recognize excellence in reporting and communicating science, engineering and medicine to the general public." This year, I'm honored...

Cosmic Log: Supercollider = superstar

Posted: Monday, September 22, 2008 6:30 PM by Alan Boyle The Compact Muon Solenoid, shown here in a head-on view during construction, is the Large Hadron Collider's most massive detector. Like most multibillion-dollar...

Cosmic Log: A galactic double feature

Posted: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 3:20 PM by Alan Boyle This Hubble image reveals a rare alignment involving a small foreground galaxy and a larger background galaxy. Two galaxies, one right in front of the other, have...

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