Vasudevan Mukunth

Vasudevan Mukunth is the science editor at The Wire.

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Why Are We Going Over the Moon on ISRO and Helium-3 All Over Again?

Vasudevan Mukunth 18/07/2018

If we're going to get excited about ISRO mining...

Elon Musk. Credit: Reuters

The Spectacle That Is Elon Musk Coming Undone

Vasudevan Mukunth 18/07/2018

Over the weekend, the billionaire entrepreneur called one of...

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is buried at depths between 1.5 and 2.5 km below the south pole. The only visible equipment is the IceCube Lab, which hosts the computers that collect data from the over 5,000 light sensors in the ice. In this artistic rendering, based on a real image of the lab, the September neutrino event is shown in the ice below Antarctica's surface. Caption and credit: IceCube Collaboration/NSF

Breakthrough: South Pole Lab Finds Ancient Blazar at End of Cosmic Rays Mystery

Vasudevan Mukunth 13/07/2018

In another feat of multi-messenger astronomy led by the...

In a rush to push out 'research' that reaffirms the beliefs of some of its ministers, including related to cow urine, the government has been undercutting good practices. Credit: paulspace/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Blinded By Its Cow-Urine Craze, the Government Isn’t Fostering Good Research Practices

Vasudevan Mukunth 04/07/2018

One 'finding' suggests cancer and MDR-TB patients consuming a...

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AI Beat Humans at a Complex Game but Is It the Leap Bill Gates Says It Is?

Vasudevan Mukunth 30/06/2018

A 'team' of deep-learning neural networks defeated human semi-pros...

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What Makes Manholes So Lethal?

Vasudevan Mukunth 27/06/2018

Without safety equipment, workers inside manholes are exposed to...

An image in Claude Cohen-Tannoudji's 1994 paper, commemorating the contributions of S. Pancharatnam. Credit: Current Science

Catching a Glimpse of S. Pancharatnam in History’s Precisest Chemical Reaction

Vasudevan Mukunth 21/06/2018

Before his untimely death at the age of 35,...