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Vasudevan Mukunth

Vasudevan Mukunth is the Deputy Science Editor of The Hindu. He writes on physics, health, environment, spaceflight, research administration and misconduct, and science policy. He also manages The Hindu’s science and environment coverage. He was previously with a digital science publication he founded in 2020, and has written for various national and international news publications and journals.

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Daily Quiz: On Toponymy

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In this map of Switzerland, the one canton shown in purple at a roughly 2 o’clock position is Appenzell Innerrhoden, which was one of the last places in Europe to grant women the right to vote, in 1991

Daily Quiz | On women’s suffrage

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For representative purposes.

On amplifiers: how do they work and what are the different kinds?

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Warning of a system hacked. Virus, cyber attack, malware concept. 3d rendering.

The Science Quiz | Computer viruses

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Global warning: Water drips from melting ice in the Ilulissat Icefjord, Greenland. File

Paris Agreement: Present tense, future dangerous

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Bhopal: People take part in ‘Rangpanchami Ger’ celebrations, in Bhopal, Saturday, March 30, 2024.

The Science Quiz | The psychology of colours

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SpaceX’s Starship flies during its fifth flight test, in Boca Chica, Texas, U.S., October 13, 2024.

The Science Quiz | The twisted possibilities surrounding time travel

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Trucks loaded with toxic waste from the Union Carbide factory wait inside the premises of the Pithampur Industrial Waste Management plant.

The trouble with disposing Bhopal’s Union Carbide waste | Explained

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The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, who produced the first ever image of a black hole released in 2019, has today a new view of the massive object at the centre of the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy: how it looks in polarised light. This is the first time astronomers have been able to measure polarisation, a signature of magnetic fields, this close to the edge of a black hole.  This image shows the polarised view of the black hole in M87. The lines mark the orientation of polarisation, which is related to the magnetic field around the shadow of the black hole.

The Science Quiz | Horizons — the lines between what we can and can’t know

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A view of the Roman temple in modern-day Nimes, France, whose name in French means “square house” and which was dedicated to two grandsons of Augustus. File

Daily quiz | On Roman empire

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Representative illustration. A semi-Dirac fermion has mass when it’s moving in one particular direction but not in a perpendicular direction.

‘Strange’ particle found to have mass when moving in one direction, not another

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The instrument comparator of Boeing 737 showing artificial horizon (left) and the altimeter - picture taken after it was meddled with by a bystander at crash site. Ideally, it should have read 180. It had read 450 after crash. Photo: The Hindu Archives

The Science Quiz | There’s something to measure everything else

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School students take part in an event marking the 150th anniversary of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) in Chennai.

IMD: India’s weather tracker turns 150 years old

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A miner checks the gas lamp before entering the coal mines of New Ghusick colony in Asansol, West Bengal, on April 13, 2004. T

The Science Quiz | 209 years ago, Humphry Davy first tested a peculiar lamp…

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