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...
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.
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...