Vasudevan Mukunth

Vasudevan Mukunth is the science editor at The Wire.

The centre of the Milky Way galaxy looms over the La Silla Observatory, Chile. Credit: esoastronomy/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

What Does the Milky Way Look Like? Astronomers Use High-School Math to Find Out

Vasudevan Mukunth 13/10/2017

We have stunning shots of other galaxies but we...

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Are the Papers Behind This Year’s Nobel Prizes in the Public Domain?

Vasudevan Mukunth 05/10/2017

Many of the important papers penned by the chemistry...

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Chemistry Nobel for Microscopes That Can ‘See’ the Atoms of Life

Vasudevan Mukunth 04/10/2017

Jacquet Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson optimised the...

L-R: Kip Thorne (credit: LIGO Lab/Caltech), Rainer Weiss (credit: IAU, CC BY 4.0) and Barry Barish (source: YouTube)

Nobel Prize for Physics Goes to Trio That Pioneered Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Vasudevan Mukunth 03/10/2017

But by giving the prize only to Kip Thorne,...

The VIRGO Observatory. Credit: The Virgo collaboration/CCO 1.0

Gravitational Waves From Colliding Black Holes Detected for Fourth Time – With Many Firsts

Vasudevan Mukunth 28/09/2017

We are getting a glimpse of the power of...

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Let’s Talk (Right) About Eman Ahmed

Vasudevan Mukunth 25/09/2017

The highly publicised treatment in a Mumbai hospital of...

Satya Pal Singh. Credit: PTI

Dear Minister: An Indian Did Try to Fly But He Definitely Didn’t Invent the Aeroplane

Vasudevan Mukunth 20/09/2017

If the thinking of Satya Pal Singh is anything...