Alan Boyle

Rocket rides for sale

Posted: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 12:54 PM by Alan Boyle Click for video: The Lynx Mark I rocket plane, shown in this artist's conception, would fly to an altitude of 38 miles (61 kilometers) and serve as a test bed for a...

Cosmic Log: Season’s greetings from space

Posted: Monday, December 01, 2008 5:08 PM by Alan Boyle The gravitationally interacting pair of galaxies known as Arp 147 gets the greeting-card treatment from the Hubble Space Telescope's team. Are you looking for...

Cosmic Log: Huge move for space chess

Posted: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 5:55 PM by Alan Boyle Astronaut Greg Chamitoff brought a chessboard to the international space station. NASA's orbiting chess player is getting ready for the biggest move since his epic...

One giant leap for space chess

Nov 26, 2008

Posted: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 5:55 PM by Alan Boyle Astronaut Greg Chamitoff brought a chessboard to the international space station. NASA's orbiting chess player is getting ready for the biggest move since his epic...

Cosmic Log: What to get a geek

Posted: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 6:06 PM by Alan Boyle It's hard to know what to buy for a science geek - so hard that we're offering geeky prizes for the best holiday gift idea. Here's the drill: Submit your gift suggestions...

Cosmic Log: Atom smashers on TV

Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: Can the movies turn real-life physicists into stars? "The Atom Smashers" packs a lot of real life into its saga about the world's biggest subatomic quest - plus a bit of movie magic.

Cosmic Log: Hubble solves space question

Posted: Thursday, November 20, 2008 6:38 PM by Alan Boyle A. Aloisi / STScI / ESA / NASA / AURA The galaxy NGC 1569 sparkles with the light from millions of newborn stars in an image from the Hubble Space Telescope. Using the...

Cosmic Log: The wired White House

Posted: Friday, November 21, 2008 9:37 AM by Alan Boyle Barack Obama watches a campaign rally video on a laptop during the presidential primary campaign, on a Feb. 6 flight from Washington to New Orleans. The way the Obama...

Future Stars of the Bar 2008

Our series last year highlighting some of the brightest young legal talent proved so popular we had to run it again. This week, ten young British barristers destined for the top of the profession Paul Burns Exchange Chambers A...

Cosmic Log: Interplanetary Internet passes test

Posted: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:02 AM by Alan Boyle After more than a decade of tinkering, NASA has successfully conducted the first deep-space test of a communication protocol that could serve as the foundation of an...

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