Vasudevan Mukunth

Vasudevan Mukunth is the science editor at The Wire.

The PSLV takes off on its 24th mission in April 2014 to launch the IRNSS 1B satellite. Source: ISRO

Why Haven’t ISRO and the US Signed Their Commercial Space Launch Agreement Yet?

Vasudevan Mukunth 23/05/2016

ISRO will have to take a call about whether...

Siddhartha Mukherjee. Source: YouTube

Siddhartha Mukherjee Prepares Us for a Crucial Moment in the History of the Genome

Vasudevan Mukunth 17/05/2016

With his new book, the author takes a step...

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Start of LHC’s 2016 Run Suffused With Hopes of a New Particle

Vasudevan Mukunth 16/05/2016

This year is when we might discover another foundational...

A leopard. Credit: malcolmcerfonteyn/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Not Just Tigers, Our Leopards Are in Trouble As Well – and We’re Ignoring Them

Vasudevan Mukunth 06/05/2016

The animals have altogether disappeared from 63% of the...

In the constellation Cassiopeia, 7,100 lightyears away, a start 45-times as heavy as our Sun is blowing out superhot winds of gas travelling at 6.4 million km/hr. These winds push against the much cooler blanket of interstellar gas, bunching them up along the surface of a giant bubble over seven lightyears across. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

10 Iconic Images to Recall 26 Years of the Hubble Space Telescope

Vasudevan Mukunth 24/04/2016

Because of the popularity of its images, Hubble will...

AIIMS, Bhubaneshwar. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Over Half of India’s Medical Schools Didn’t Publish Original Research in 2005-2014

Vasudevan Mukunth 23/04/2016

Results of the analysis shouldn't come as a surprise...

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We’ve Become More Ambitious About Reaching Alpha Centauri – What Changed?

Vasudevan Mukunth 13/04/2016

The real innovation powering the idea of Starshot is...