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Knowable Magazine
Nonprofit, mission-driven magazine for science communication From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 from areas including health and disease, the environment, biology, physics, the social sciences, and economics, linking back to science-related scholarly sources. The publication aims "to create a bridge between popular science articles and the technical literature".[2] Knowable often uses comics and infographics to enhance storytelling and make complex concepts easier to understand.[3][4] Knowable Magazine makes many of its science graphics freely available online, for use by scientists and educators.[5][6]
As a non-profit publication, Knowable Magazine has been supported by grants from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.[7][8][9] the Dana Foundation.[10] and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).[11] As of October 13, 2022[update], the initiative was expanded to include Knowable en español, a Spanish-language publication under editor Debbie Ponchner.[1][12][13][14][15][16]
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Launched in October 2017,[7] Knowable Magazine was Folio magazine's 2018 Ozzie Award Winner for "Design, New Magazine" in the category "Consumer / Custom"[17] and an Honoree for the 2020 Webby Awards.[18] It was a winner or honorable mention in multiple categories of the Folio Eddie and Ozzie Awards for 2018,[17] 2019,[19] 2020[20], 2021[21], 2022,[22] 2023[23], and 2024.[24] The Knowable Magazine podcast won the Eddie category for podcast in Science & Technology in 2022 and for Science in 2024.[22][24]
In 2021, Jessica Seigel won the Newswomen's Club of New York's Front Page Award for Specialized Reporting in Science/Technology for The truth about lying. [25] In 2022, Amber Dance won the Excellence in Reporting award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors for Pencils down: The year pre-college tests went away.[26] In 2023, Ute Eberle was the Short Form Print Winner in the Acoustical Society of America's Science Communications Awards for the Knowable article Life in the soil was thought to be silent. What if it isn’t? [27] In 2024, Katarina Zimmer won the Eddie & Ozzie Award for Range of Work by a Single Author, Consumer.[24]
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),[28] Best Shortform Science Writing awards (2020,[29] 2019,[30] 2018[31]), and Best Online Articles & Essays from Entropy Magazine (2018).[32]
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Knowable Magazine is available to read online without a subscription or other fees.[7] The articles in the magazine are published under a CC BY-ND copyright license prohibiting derivative works.[33] Many of Knowable Magazine's science graphics have been made freely available online at Flickr for use by scientists and educators.[5][34][6]
Major national and international publications including The Atlantic,[35] PBS NewsHour,[36] Scientific American,[37] Smithsonian,[38] Discover,[39] the BBC,[40] The Washington Post[41] and Ars Technica[42] have republished articles from Knowable Magazine. Articles from Knowable en español have been republished in media such as El País, Spain;[43] La Nación, Argentina;[44] La Nación, Costa Rica;[45] El Espectador, Colombia;[46] El Universal, México,[47] and Salud con Lupa, Perú.[48]
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