Alexander McNamara

Online Editor, BBC Science Focus

Alexander is the former Online Editor at BBC Science Focus.

Recent articles by Alexander McNamara

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Everyday science

Brian Cox on Forces of Nature

New spray lets you squeeze every drop from your bottle © iStock

New spray lets you squeeze every drop from your bottle

NASA just started the biggest fire in space © NASA

NASA just started the biggest fire in space

Four newest elements named © Getty Images

Four newest elements named

The three steps astronomers used to measure the Hubble constant © NASA, ESA, A. Feild (STScI), and A. Riess (STScI/JHU)

New Hubble constant: Universe expanding faster than expected

Google's Magenta creates its first AI song © iStock

Google’s Magenta creates its first AI song

© NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Hubble takes us on a journey to the centre of the Galaxy

SpaceX plans to land on Mars by 2018 © SpaceX/Flickr

SpaceX plans to land on Mars by 2018

Jupiter ‘Northern Lights’ caused by solar storms © X-ray: NASA/CXC/UCL/W.Dunn et al, Optical: NASA/STScI

Jupiter ‘Northern Lights’ caused by solar storms

Watch: Alaska Airlines inflight entertainment totally eclipses competition © Alaska Airlines

Watch: Alaska Airlines inflight entertainment totally eclipses competition

Ichthyosaurs – good at swimming, less so at evolution © Andrey Atuchin 2016

Ichthyosaur extinction down to climate change and slow evolution

distant galaxy

Hubble Space Telescope spots furthest galaxy

Ground personnel carry International Space Station (ISS) crew member Tim Peake of Britain shortly after landing near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on June 18, 2016 © Shamil Zhumatov/AFP/Getty Images

Weird, wonderful and downright dull tasks Tim Peake did in space

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Future Technology

Nissan shows off self-parking chairs

Einstein’s mystery of gravitational waves solved © Getty Images

Einstein’s mystery of gravitational waves solved