Category: Astronomy
The Webb Space Telescope Will Rewrite Cosmic History. If It Works.
Natalie Wolchover
PUBLISHED BY: Quanta Magazine ON December 3, 2021
Pulitzer Prize
For this multimedia article exploring the James Webb Space Telescope’s extensive backstory and profiling scientists working on the $10-billion project, Quanta Magazine was awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting. Natalie Wolchover, senior editor at Quanta, was the story’s lead […]
The Stargazers
Joshua Sokol
PUBLISHED BY: Science ON June 2, 2022
Showcase Selection
In this feature for Science magazine, freelance science journalist Joshua Sokol describes how Indigenous Maya are working with Western scholars to understand the ancient Maya astronomy buried by Spanish colonists hundreds of years ago. Sokol has won awards from CASW, […]
Earth’s Tectonic Activity May Be Crucial for Life—and Rare in Our Galaxy
Shannon Hall
PUBLISHED BY: Scientific American ON July 20, 2017
American Geophysical Union
Our planet is in constant flux. Tectonic plates—the large slabs of rock that divide Earth’s crust so that it looks like a cracked eggshell—jostle about in fits and starts that continuously reshape our planet—and possibly foster life. …
