Alexander Chilton

Alexander has a BSc in Physics from the University of Sheffield. After graduating, he spent two years working in Sheffield for a large UK-based law firm, before relocating back to the North West and joining the editorial team at AZoNetwork. Alexander is particularly interested in the history and philosophy of science, as well as science communication.

Outside of work, Alexander can often be found at gigs, record shopping or watching Crewe Alexandra trying to avoid relegation to League Two.

Articles from Alexander

NASA's New Horizons Mission Provides Surprising Insight into Pluto's Surface

NASA’s New Horizons team have announced a series of discoveries including a new, vivid view of Pluto’s largest moon, Charon and the icy mountains on Pluto just one day after the spacecraft’s first ever flyby.

16 Jul 2015

New Study on Fibre Optics Could Lead to a Communication Revolution

New research from the University of Dundee could pave the way for superfast communications technology and lead to significant advancements in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and other medical conditions.

15 Jul 2015

IOP Awards Isaac Newton Medal to Professor Eli Yablonovitch for Photonic Nanostructures Research

The Institute of Physics' most prestigious accolade, the Isaac Newton Medal, has been awarded to Professor Eli Yablonovitch for his visionary and foundational contributions to photonic nanostructures.

1 Jul 2015

New Research Finds that our Body Clock uses the Colour of Light to Measure Time

Research scientists at the University of Manchester have found that the colour of light has a major impact on the body clock of mice and other mammals such as humans.

20 Apr 2015

Cryo-Transmission Electron Microscopy Helps to Capture Comprehensive Microscopic Images of Ultra-Small Bacteria

Researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory of the Department of Energy and the University of California have captured the first comprehensive microscopic images of ultra-small bacteria.

2 Mar 2015

The World’s Biggest Solar Telescope to be built by University of Sheffield Researchers

Researchers from the University of Sheffield are currently helping to build the world’s biggest and most revolutionary solar telescope, The Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST).

11 Feb 2015

University of Rochester Researchers Create Multidirectional Invisibility Cloak

University of Rochester researchers have developed an invisibility cloak by combining four ordinary lenses which can hide objects across a range of angles.

30 Sep 2014