Vasudevan Mukunth

Vasudevan Mukunth is the science editor at The Wire.

The DigiLocker website's homepage. Source: Screengrab

Petition Asks Why Aadhar Is a Must to Unlock Modi’s DigiLocker

Vasudevan Mukunth 04/07/2015

DigiLocker provides each user with 10 MB of storage...

The Large Hadron Collider tunnel. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

A New Particle to Break the Standard Model?

Vasudevan Mukunth 02/07/2015

In an underreported development, scientists at the Large Hadron...

A Falcon 9 rocket rolling out. Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX Rocket Blows Up but Let’s Remember that #SpaceIsHard

Vasudevan Mukunth 30/06/2015

It’s not all-or-nothing each time people try to launch...

Gandhi Bhawan at Panjab University. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

How Small Universities Can Game Rankings

Vasudevan Mukunth 28/06/2015

The joust for getting placed well in rankings is...

A photo taken by the NASA Aqua satellite shows a pall of smoke hanging over Uttar Pradesh as a result of crop-burning. Credit: NASA

Beijing’s Buildings Make for Bad Breathing but the News From India is Worse

Vasudevan Mukunth 27/06/2015

While Beijing may have a better grip on air...

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The Indus and Ganges-Brahmaputra Basins Are Drying Up Faster Than We’d Like

Vasudevan Mukunth 22/06/2015

The Indus Basin is the second most overstressed on...

A GIF of Charon orbiting Pluto compiled using images taken by the New Horizons MVIC Color Imager between May 29 and June 3, 2015. Credit: NASA

Pluto-Bound Probe Takes First Colour Images of the Dwarf Planet and its Moon

Vasudevan Mukunth 22/06/2015

As New Horizons gets closer to Pluto, its images...