Knowable Magazine

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Knowable Magazine
EditorEva Emerson
Categories Popular science, science journalism
FrequencyWeekly
Publisher Annual Reviews
First issueOctober 2017
CountryAmerica
LanguageEnglish
Website knowablemagazine.org
ISSN 2575-4459

Knowable Magazine is a non-profit, editorially independent online publication from science publisher Annual Reviews that discusses scientific discoveries and the significance of scholarly work in a journalistic style. The magazine uses information from Annual Reviews' 51 review journals as springboards for stories on topics such as health & disease, society, geography, environment and other science-related material, linking back to scholarly sources. As a nonprofit publication, Knowable Magazine is supported by grants from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. [1] [2]

Contents

History

Launched in October 2017, [1] Knowable Magazine was Folio magazine's 2018 Ozzie Award Winner for "Design, New Magazine" in the category "Consumer / Custom" [3] and an Honoree for the 2020 Webby Awards. [4] It was a winner or honorable mention in multiple categories of the Folio Eddie and Ozzie Awards for 2018, [3] 2019, [5] and 2020. [6] Awards that Knowable Magazine has received for its articles also include the 2020 Jonathan Eberhart Planetary Sciences Journalism Award for distinguished popular writing from the American Astronomical Society (2020), [7] Best Shortform Science Writing awards (2020, [8] 2019, [9] 2018 [10] ), and Best Online Articles & Essays from Entropy Magazine (2018). [11] As of October 13,2022Knowable is published in both English and Spanish. [12]

Availability

Knowable Magazine is available to read online without a subscription or other fees. [1] The articles in the magazine are published under a CC BY-ND copyright license prohibiting derivative works. [13] Major national and international publications including The Atlantic , [14] PBS NewsHour , [15] Scientific American , [16] Smithsonian , [17] Discover , [18] the BBC, [19] The Washington Post [20] and Ars Technica [21] have republished articles from Knowable Magazine.

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