Vasudevan Mukunth

Vasudevan Mukunth is the science editor at The Wire.

Balakot air strike, Indian Air Force IAF, Gurney equation, tritonal, fuel air explosives, thermobaric weapon, Mirage 2000, MiG 21 Bison, aviation, ammunition, SPICE 2000, Balakot madrasa, TNT, DRDO, Chapman-Jouget detonation, BLU-109, BLU-116, bunker buster, Line of Control, overpressure, propylene oxide, Planet Labs, high explosives, Mk 84 warhead, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Vijay Gokhale

Boom or Bust: What Science Tells Us About What Went Down in Balakot

Vasudevan Mukunth 10/03/2019

The challenge is to correlate the limited damage visible...

Ashok Khemka, Haryana, DLF land grab scam, Robert Vadra, Bhupinder Hooda, IAS officer, Bharatiya Janata Party, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Aravalli hills, Raman Malik, crony capitalism, corruption, anti-corruption,

Ashok Khemka, What Will You Find Next?

Vasudevan Mukunth 05/03/2019

Should the IAS officer be able to condense just...

wakefield accelerator, plasma wakefield acceleration, laser wakefield acceleration, particle physics, Large Hadron Collider, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, petawatt laser, femtosecond, chirped pulse laser, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CERN, Advanced Wakefield Acceleration Experiment, electrons, protons, positrons, medical diagnostics, biomedical research, X-rays, Gérard Mourou, Donna Strickland, European Extreme Light Infrastructure, high energy physics, University of Maryland, acceleration gradient, Chandrashekhar Joshi, linac, plasma waveguide,

Using Ultrafast Laser, ‘Mini’ Particle Accelerator Sets New Energy Record

Vasudevan Mukunth 28/02/2019

Smaller accelerators will be more affordable. In the hands...

Department of Science and Technology, Department of Biotechnology, AWSAR, BJP, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, authority, expertise, ivory tower, social science, humanities, scientific literacy, scientific temper, gau mutra, braid cutting, Vedic school board, Gauri Lankesh, R&D, Statue of Unity, higher education, Science Day, CV Raman,

Five Reflections on National Science Day

Vasudevan Mukunth 28/02/2019

C.V. Raman won a Nobel Prize for discovering the...

Mount Everest. Credit: WIkimedia Commons

Forecasting Quakes in the Himalaya With a Peek Into Its Past

Vasudevan Mukunth 20/02/2019

Why there is a mega-quake building under the Himalaya,...

Plan S, Plan S cOAlition, gold OA, green OA, Department of Science and Technology, Nature Publishing Group, open access, scientific publishing, article processing charge, PeerJ, PLOS, Scimago, India research output, DRDO, Department of Space, Department of Atomic Energy, Björn Brembs, society journals, green OA,

Six Concerns Over India Joining the Plan S Coalition for Science Journals

Vasudevan Mukunth 14/02/2019

Plan S's participants want to set up a global...

Pay Commission, research scholars strike, young scientists, Prime Minister's Research Fellowship, K VijayRaghavan, MHRD, Department of Science and Technology, Matscience, Nanjing University, reward for publication, impact factor, prestigious journals, teaching assistance, research assistance, junior research fellowship, senior research fellowship,

With Scholars Set to Restart Protests, a Peek Inside the Research Funds Gridlock

Vasudevan Mukunth 02/02/2019

Their demands reveal a picture of people trying to...