Vasudevan Mukunth

Watch: Asteroid Ceres Has Many Ingredients for the Recipe of Life

The Wire Staff 17/02/2017

NASA Dawn data has revealed the presence of substances...

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Watch: All You Need To Know About ISRO’s PSLV C37 Mission – 1 Launch, 104 Satellites

The Wire Staff 14/02/2017

The PSLV C37 mission, scheduled for February 15, will...

The supernova 2013fs located in a blue, star-forming area (the red point sources in the vicinity are foreground stars), which is apparently a part of one of the major arms of the spiral host NGC 7610. Caption and credit: doi:10.1038/nphys4025

Astronomers Catch Star Just Six Hours After it Goes Supernova

Vasudevan Mukunth 14/02/2017

They also found the dying star had begun to...

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Infinite in All Directions: A Scientist’s Horoscope, Digital Philosophy, the Best Expletive

Vasudevan Mukunth 13/02/2017

Infinite in All Directions is The Wire‘s science newsletter....

Galaxy NGC 1398, photographed by the Dark Energy Survey. Credit: uclmaps/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Centennial: Einstein’s Desperate Mistake, the Cosmological Constant

Vasudevan Mukunth 09/02/2017

There are multiple implications of the cosmological constant that...

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Infinite in All Directions: Apolitical Scientists, Bose v. Newton, Science That Matters

Vasudevan Mukunth 06/02/2017

Infinite in All Directions is The Wire‘s science newsletter....

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Review: Enrico Fermi, the Quiet ‘Pope’ in a Collapsing World

Vasudevan Mukunth 06/02/2017

The Pope of Physics, by Bettina Hoerlin and Gino...