Knowable Magazine

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 and disease, society, geography, environment and other science-related material, linking back to scholarly sources. As a non-profit publication, Knowable Magazine is supported by grants from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.^[1][2] In 2022, the initiative was expanded to publish Knowable en español, a Spanish-language publication.^[3]

Knowable Magazine

Editor	Eva Emerson
Categories	Popular science, science journalism
Frequency	Weekly
Publisher	Annual Reviews
First issue	October 2017
Country	United States
Language	English
Website	knowablemagazine.org
ISSN	2575-4459

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"^[4] and an Honoree for the 2020 Webby Awards.^[5] It was a winner or honorable mention in multiple categories of the Folio Eddie and Ozzie Awards for 2018,^[4] 2019,^[6] and 2020.^[7] 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),^[8] Best Shortform Science Writing awards (2020,^[9] 2019,^[10] 2018^[11]), and Best Online Articles & Essays from Entropy Magazine (2018).^[12] As of October 13, 2022^[update] Knowable is published in both English and Spanish.^[13]

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.^[14] Major national and international publications including The Atlantic,^[15] PBS NewsHour,^[16] Scientific American,^[17] Smithsonian,^[18] Discover,^[19] the BBC,^[20] The Washington Post^[21] and Ars Technica^[22] have republished articles from Knowable Magazine.