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14-493: Undark Magazine described Quanta Magazine as "highly regarded for its masterful coverage of complex topics in science and math." The science news aggregator RealClearScience ranked Quanta Magazine first on its list of "The Top 10 Websites for Science in 2018." In 2020, the magazine received a National Magazine Award for General Excellence from the American Society of Magazine Editors for its "willingness to tackle some of

28-542: A photographic collection showing the life of black cowboys in 2004 and 2005. In 2013, grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting funded Price's project to document child labor in developing countries. Price produced an episode of PBS NewsHour , "Hazardous Work: Diving into the Philippines’ Dangerous Underwater Mines", which received an Emmy for outstanding investigative journalism in

42-549: A photojournalist and later director of photography. After leaving the Inquirer in 1989, Price worked on contract for National Geographic before returning to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram as an assistant managing editor in 1991. In 1996, Price joined The Baltimore Sun photography staff. He was named assistant managing editor for photography for The Denver Post in 2000 where he remained until mid-2006. Price worked on

56-776: A regularly scheduled newscast in 2015. In 2019, Price was one of the winners of the 70th Annual George Polk Awards from Long Island University, being honored for Environmental Reporting for a series of reports on deadly particulate pollutants in seven countries. Price has received a Best Photographic Reporting award from the Overseas Press Club and has been honored at the World Press Photo Awards . His images have appeared in Time , Newsweek , National Geographic , U.S. News & World Report , Audubon and other national publications. Price has contributed to 12 Day in

70-409: Is a nonprofit online publication exploring science as a "frequently wondrous, sometimes contentious, and occasionally troubling byproduct of human culture." The name Undark is a deliberate reference to a radium-based luminous paint product called Undark that ultimately proved toxic, if not deadly for those who handled it. The publication's tag line is "Truth, Beauty, Science." The magazine

84-749: Is published under the auspices of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Undark publishes a mix of long-form journalism , shorter features, essays, op-eds , questions and answers, and book excerpts and reviews. All content is freely available to read, and most is available for republishing by other publications and websites. Many large national and international publications, including Scientific American , The Atlantic , Smithsonian , NPR , and Outside have republishing relationships with Undark . Undark

98-709: The University of Texas at Austin from which he received a Bachelor of Journalism degree in 1977. He was a member of The Daily Texan staff during his senior year in college. After college, he joined the El Paso Times staff. He then worked on the news staff at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. During that time (1979-1983), Price also was a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1983, he left Fort Worth for The Philadelphia Inquirer to work as

112-546: The Feature category for its series "Wear & Tear", which explored the global impacts of the leather tanning and textile industries. In 2018, three Undark contributors were named as finalists in the National Association of Science Writers ' Science and Society Awards. Larry C. Price Larry C. Price (born February 23, 1954) is an American photojournalist who has won two Pulitzer Prizes . In 1981, he won

126-699: The Pulitzer Prize in Spot News Photography, recognizing images from Liberia published by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram . In 1985, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for images from war-torn Angola and El Salvador published by The Philadelphia Inquirer . Born and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas , Price attended Sam Houston State University and then transferred to

140-490: The art director is Samuel Velasco. In 2024, Samir Patel became the magazine's second editor in chief. In November 2018, MIT Press published two collections of articles from Quanta Magazine , Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire and The Prime Number Conspiracy . In May 2022 the magazine's staff, notably Natalie Wolchover , were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting . Undark Magazine Undark Magazine

154-606: The magazine's multinational, multipart exposé on global air pollution, called "Breathtaking". The series also won the 2019 Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award from the Online News Association . The magazine's work has been anthologized in The Best American Science & Nature Writing book series. In 2017, Undark was a finalist for an Online Journalism Award in

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168-641: The magazine. The magazine also has three podcasts, two of which are hosted by Steven Strogatz . Janna Levin joined as cohost of The Joy of Why for the third season in 2024. Quanta Magazine was initially launched as Simons Science News in October 2012, but it was renamed to its current title in July 2013. It was founded by the former New York Times journalist Thomas Lin, who was the magazine's editor-in-chief until 2024. The two deputy editors are John Rennie and Michael Moyer, formerly of Scientific American , and

182-419: The toughest and most difficult topics in science and math in a language that is accessible to the lay reader without condescension or oversimplification ." The articles in the magazine are freely available to read online. Scientific American , Wired , The Atlantic , and The Washington Post , as well as international science publications like Spektrum der Wissenschaft , have reprinted articles from

196-582: Was jointly founded in 2016 by Pulitzer Prize -winning science author Deborah Blum and former New York Times journalist Tom Zeller Jr. , who serves as editor-in-chief of the magazine. Undark has earned numerous awards for its journalism, including being named a finalist for a 2022 National Magazine Award in the Reporting category. On February 19, 2019, Undark was awarded a George Polk Award for Environmental Reporting. The award honored photojournalist Larry C. Price and contributing reporters for

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