Alexander McNamara

Online Editor, BBC Science Focus

Alexander is the former Online Editor at BBC Science Focus.

Recent articles by Alexander McNamara

Anatomy-of-the-car

Future Technology

Watch Bloodhound SSC engineers dissect the car

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Future Technology

Chrysler Portal the concept car for millennials

9 of the funniest science songs on the internet

Everyday science

Nine of the funniest science songs on the internet

10 of the best Daydream View VR games

Future Technology

10 of the best Daydream View VR games

Hand movement videos were shown to CRPS patients and to a control group © Jaakko Hotta/Aalto University

Ouch! Seeing pain could actually cause it

Flat plates linked to mega earthquakes © Getty Images

Flat plates linked to mega earthquakes

© NASA/JHUAPL/Carnegie Institution Of Washington/DLR/Smithsonian Institution

Enormous canyon discovered on Mercury

New simulation shows 100 per cent renewable energy future © iStock

New simulation shows 100 per cent renewable energy future

Jupiter emissions sound like the stuff of nightmares © NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM

Jupiter emissions sound like the stuff of nightmares

Artist’s conception shows KIC 8462852 behind a shattered comet © NASA/JPL-Caltech

Tabby’s star stranger than previously thought

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) © Chinese Academy of Sciences

FAST telescope ready to begin testing

The interior structure of Uranus is illustrated © MIPT Press office

Extraordinary new compounds could exist in gas giants

Gravitational waves point to primordial black holes © Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images

Gravitational waves point to primordial black holes

What would it be like to land on Pluto? © Getty Images

What would it be like to land on Pluto?

Jawbones reveal secrets to dinosaur survival © DeAgostini/Getty Images

Jawbones reveal secrets to dinosaur survival