Vasudevan Mukunth

Vasudevan Mukunth is the science editor at The Wire.

An artist's impression of New Horizons flying by Pluton, with Charon visible in the background. Credit: SwRI/NASA

Why You Should Care About the New Horizons Probe Nearing Pluto

Vasudevan Mukunth 29/05/2015

The New Horizons probe is less than two months...

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Twitter Isn’t Impressed With What We’re Doing About Climate Change

Vasudevan Mukunth 26/05/2015

Based on tweets sent between 2008 and 2014, mathematicians...

John Forbes Nash, Jr. Credit: Princeton University

Remembering John Nash, Mathematician Who Unlocked Game Theory For Economics

Vasudevan Mukunth 25/05/2015

The Nobel Prize and Abel prize winning John Nash...

Image of Tyrrhenus Mons in Hesperia Planum region taken by Mars Colour Camera on February 25, 2015, at a spatial resolution of 166 m from an altitude of 3192 km.

ISRO Keeps Up Steady Trickle of Photos From Mars Orbiter

Vasudevan Mukunth 23/05/2015

The latest images show Tyrrhenus Mons, one of the...

Bletchley Park, in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, wherefore Alan Turing worked during the Second World War. Credit: Draco2008/Wikimedia Commons

Two of Alan Turing’s WW-II Papers Are Now in the Public Domain

Vasudevan Mukunth 21/05/2015

The papers are didactic and meticulous, and provide great...

A representation of the Indonesian Throughflow. Credit: cmar.csiro.au

As Seas Exchange Heat, the Indian Ocean is Becoming a Marine Hothouse

Vasudevan Mukunth 21/05/2015

A team of researchers from France and the US...

An artist's illustration of the Mars Orbiter orbiting the red planet. Credit: Nesnad/Wikimedia Commons

It’s Time For ISRO to Reach For the (Blue) Sky

Vasudevan Mukunth 19/05/2015

The problem is not that we haven’t had more...