Quanta Magazine is an editorially independent[1] online publication of the Simons Foundation covering developments in physics, mathematics, biology and computer science.

Quanta Magazine was initially launched as Simons Science News[2] in October 2012, but it was renamed to its current title in July 2013.

[4][5] The two deputy editors are John Rennie and Michael Moyer, formerly of Scientific American, and the art director is Samuel Velasco.

[7] Scientific American,[8] Wired,[9] The Atlantic, and The Washington Post, as well as international science publications like Spektrum der Wissenschaft,[10] have reprinted articles from the magazine.

In November 2018, MIT Press published two collections of articles from Quanta Magazine, Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire[11] and The Prime Number Conspiracy.