Vasudevan Mukunth

Vasudevan Mukunth is the science editor at The Wire.

Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Atomki, Atomki anomaly, Attila Krasznahorkay, particle physics, high-energy physics, quasiparticles, room-temperature superconductivity, vector bosons, axions, Z bosons, Nobel Prize, Dungeons and Dragons, Weyl fermion, X17, Matt Strassler, selection bias, Dungeons and Dragons, X17, high-energy physics, Large Hadron Collider,

Anomalous ‘Fifth Force’ Is Back in the News but It’s Still Not a Force of Nature

Vasudevan Mukunth 26/11/2019

Stumbling upon a particle during an experiment is one...

SpaceX, Starlink, satellite constellation, Starlink mega-constellation, VLEO, low-Earth orbit, International Telecommunications Union, geosynchronous orbit, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Aviation Administration, Facebook Athena, Iridium constellation, OneWeb, International Astronomical Union, Cerro Tololo, low-cost internet, Blue Origin, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos,

Thanks to Starlink There’s a New Void in Space: the Absence of Rules of the Road

Vasudevan Mukunth 20/11/2019

An abundance of financial incentives, a dearth of policies...

predatory journals, predatory publishing, Kanhaiya Kumar, University Grants Commission, scientific publishing, research integrity, science ethics, fake journals,

India Will Skip Plan S, Focus on National Efforts in Science Publishing

Vasudevan Mukunth 26/10/2019

The government's "directions will be entirely determined by the...

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Interview: ‘Everyone Wants Change as Long as It Doesn’t Happen’

Vasudevan Mukunth 26/10/2019

K. VijayRaghavan is the principal scientific adviser to the...

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Why is a Nobel Prize for Men Still Universally Relevant for the Sciences?

Vasudevan Mukunth 16/10/2019

The fact that the Nobel Prizes essentially emerge from...

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A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the Poor Boy from Rameswaram Who Gave Flight to a Nation’s Dreams

Vasudevan Mukunth 15/10/2019

Starting in 1988 and until his death, Kalam wrote...

51 Pegasi b, atmosphere, brown dwarf, CRIRES, Doppler spectroscopy, ELODIE spectrograph, Ignas Snellen, orbital velocity, pegasean planets, Proxima Centauri, radial velocity, roaster planets, Spectroscopy, Vasudevan Mukunth, Very Large Telescope, Wolf 1061, Didier Queloz, Michel Mayor, James Peebles, Nobel Prize for Physics, physics Nobel Prize, exoplanets, grand tack model, nice model, planetary migration, NASA Kepler telescope, radial velocity, Doppler spectroscopy, hot Jupiters, pegasean planets, main-sequence stars,

The Exoplanet That Changed How We See the Solar System, and the Universe

Vasudevan Mukunth 08/10/2019

The Nobel Prize for Didier Queloz and Michel Mayor...