Vasudevan Mukunth

Vasudevan Mukunth is the science editor at The Wire.

2019 Lok Sabha elections, Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP manifesto, Amit Shah, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, science and technology, India S&T budget, R&D, GERD, scientific research, K VijayRaghavan, higher education expenditure, Gaganyaan, Mission Shakti, Central University of Kasaragod, translational research, Indian Space Research Organisation, ISRO, DRDO, forest cover, tribal communities, CAMPA,

S&T in the BJP’s Election Manifesto Is No S and All T

Vasudevan Mukunth 08/04/2019

The manifesto doesn't allay apprehensions about the future for...

Robert DePalma, dinosaur fossils, scientific journals, embargo period, The New Yorker, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, K-Pg boundary, KT boundary, dinosaur extinction, Chicxulub crater, Yucatan Peninsula, Brian Switek, Katherine Crocker, indigenous people, science as performance, palaeontology, preprint papers,

New Yorker’s Dino Fossils Profile Features Pitfalls of ‘Science as Performance’

Vasudevan Mukunth 30/03/2019

As if wary of being outdone by the science...

Mission Shakti, anti satellite missile test, Defence Research and Development Organisation, Indian Space Research Organisation, DRDO, ISRO, ballistic missile defence, exo-atmospheric, Outer Space Treaty, space debris,

Mission Shakti: India Likely Destroyed Microsat R Satellite in First ASAT Test

Vasudevan Mukunth 27/03/2019

With this test, India has become the fourth nation...

fake news, Challakere, ISRO, DRDO, Government of India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, James Damore, Alessandro Strumia, nuclear power, cellphone tower radiation, science bias, echo chamber, organic farming, crystal healing, GMO,

Hard to Be Friends With a Modi Supporter – Not so Easy With the Left Either

Vasudevan Mukunth 25/03/2019

Upbraiding the Government of India for how it set...

antimatter, Big Bang, LHCb, Large Hadron Collider, CERN, CP symmetry, CP symmetry violation, quarks, charm quark, anti-quark, D0 mesons, kaons, B mesons, charge parity, weak nuclear force, strong nuclear force, Standard Model of particle physics, particle physics, new physics, CEPC,

Spotted: New Clue to Uncover Why Universe Is Made of Matter, Not Antimatter

Vasudevan Mukunth 22/03/2019

The universe is made entirely of matter today even...

Fields Medal, Abel Prize, Nobel Prize, calculus of variations, differential geometry, analytical geometry, particle physics, harmonic maps, Institute for Advanced Study, Richard Palais, Yamabe problem, Brandeis University, University of Illinois, Dirichlet energy, Stephen Smale,

Karen Uhlenbeck Is First Woman to Win ‘Math’s Nobel’

Vasudevan Mukunth 21/03/2019

In the last 17 years, 19 men have won...

Delhi university building

A Seminar With Pseudoscience Has Blessings of DU’s Department of Education

Vasudevan Mukunth 13/03/2019

The university is a democratic space and everybody has...