Vasudevan Mukunth

Vasudevan Mukunth is the science editor at The Wire.

Ernest Rutherford, proton, Large Hadron Collider, particle physics, quark model, Murray Gell-Mann, George Zweig, quantum chromodynamics, strong nuclear force, string theory, SLAC, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, glasma, quark gluon plasma, gluon, parton distribution functions, colour glass condensate, spin crisis,

A Century of the Proton

Vasudevan Mukunth 23/05/2019

Only 100 years after the proton was first sussed...

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Nature Announces Support for Preprint Papers, Drops Ingelfinger Rule

Vasudevan Mukunth 17/05/2019

Even as we attempt to downplay the relative importance...

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Unlike Radar and Clouds, PM Narendra Modi Can Leap Over the Walls of Science

Vasudevan Mukunth 12/05/2019

"I am not a person who knows everything about...

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ISRO Delays Chandrayaan 2 Launch Again – But How Is Beresheet Involved?

Vasudevan Mukunth 27/04/2019

The fate of a private Israeli Moon mission earlier...

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Don’t Let the Event Horizon Steal the Limelight, Save Some for the Ergosphere

Vasudevan Mukunth 22/04/2019

Many think the event horizon is a wondrous region...

Event Horizon Telescope, black hole, gravitational lensing, ALMA, Double Negative Gravity Renderer, Interstellar, Christopher Nolan, Kip Thorne, M87 galaxy, M87 black hole, Sagittarius A*, Milky Way galaxy, Shep Doeleman, US National Science Foundation, science communication, Slate, Twitter,

Look Behind the Low-Res Black Hole

Vasudevan Mukunth 11/04/2019

The EHT has a 10-year headstart on any new...

angular resolution, black hole, black holes, Event Horizon Telescope, interstellar dust, M87 galaxy, Milky Way galaxy, radio waves, Sagittarius A*, very-long baseline interferometry, Virgo constellation,

A 200-Year-Old Experiment Has Helped Us See a Black Hole’s Shadow

Vasudevan Mukunth 10/04/2019

With one fuzzy image, history has been made.