Vasudevan Mukunth

Vasudevan Mukunth is the science editor at The Wire.

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LIGO Detects Second Black Hole Merger, Sets Gravitational Wave Astronomy on Its Way

Vasudevan Mukunth 15/06/2016

The Indian members of the scientific collaboration were instrumental...

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In Lighting Up Our World, We Are Losing Sight of Others

Vasudevan Mukunth 10/06/2016

A new survey of artificial lighting has found that...

Credit: Planck/ESA

A Microwave Peek Into Our Stellar Neighbourhood

Vasudevan Mukunth 08/06/2016

There might be a giant gas cloud about 400...

Sir Roger Penrose. Credit: privet/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Infinite in All Directions – June 6, 2016

Vasudevan Mukunth 06/06/2016

Infinite in All Directions is The Wire's weekly science...

Featured image: A view of the granary and great hall at Harappa. Credit: Muhammad Bin Naveed/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

What Did the Harappans In? Not a Simple Drought

Vasudevan Mukunth 06/06/2016

Researchers report that the monsoons may not have been...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have captured the most comprehensive picture ever assembled of the evolving Universe — and one of the most colourful. The study is called the Ultraviolet Coverage of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. Caption and credit: hubble_esa/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

A Universe Out of Sight

Vasudevan Mukunth 05/06/2016

We've been able to find that the universe is...

Space Shuttle Atlantis's three Block II RS-25D main engines at liftoff during the launch of STS-110. This image was extracted from engineering motion picture footage taken by a tracking camera. Caption and credit: Wikimedia Commons

ISRO’s Reusable Launch Vehicle: What Happened and What Next?

Vasudevan Mukunth 24/05/2016

ISRO did next to nothing to publicise the HEX1...