Quanta

Patel succeeds Thomas Lin, who had led Quanta since its launch as Simons Science News in 2012. Lin remains at the Simons Foundation as the head of Quanta Books, a new science book imprint.

The popular math and science podcast returns with a new co-host and a 24-episode season.

Two of this year’s winners of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications are being honored for their contributions to Quanta Magazine.

Quanta Magazine was honored with a People’s Voice award for Best Writing (Editorial) at the 26th Annual Webby Awards on Monday.

Quanta Magazine has won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory writing “for coverage that revealed the complexities of building the James Webb Telescope designed to facilitate groundbreaking astronomical and cosmological research.”

The new podcast, hosted by the mathematician Steven Strogatz, explores the secrets of sleep, the nature of space-time, why we age and other big scientific mysteries.

The award, presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences and decided by public vote, is one of the most coveted prizes in the digital space.

The new season continues host Steven Strogatz’s illuminating chats with leading scientists and mathematicians about their lives, passions and research.

Quanta was one of four magazines to be awarded top honors at the 2020 National Magazine Awards.