''Seed'' (subtitled ''Science Is Culture''; originally ''Beneath the Surface'') is a defunct online science magazine published by Seed Media Group. The magazine looked at big ideas in
science
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, important issues at the intersection of science and society, and the people driving global science
culture
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. ''Seed'' was founded in
Montreal
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by
Adam Bly
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and the magazine was then headquartered in
New York
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with bureaus around the world. May/June 2009 (Issue No. 22) was the last print issue. Content continued to be published on the website until its demise in 2012.
''Seed'' was a finalist for two
National Magazine Award
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s in 2007 in the categories of Design and General Excellence (100,000 to 250,000), was the recipient of the ''
Utne
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'' Independent Press Award, and was included in the 2006 Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology published by
Houghton Mifflin
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and edited by
Brian Greene
Brian Randolph Greene (born February 9, 1963) is an American physicist known for his research on string theory. He is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, director of its center for theoretical physics, and the cha ...
.
The magazine published original writing from scientists and science journalists. Scientists who contributed to the magazine include:
James D. Watson
James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, he co-authored with Francis Crick the academic paper in ''Nature'' proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule. Wats ...
,
Freeman Dyson
Freeman John Dyson (15 December 1923 – 28 February 2020) was a British-American theoretical physics, theoretical physicist and mathematician known for his works in quantum field theory, astrophysics, random matrix, random matrices, math ...
,
Lisa Randall
Lisa Randall (born June 18, 1962) is an American theoretical physicist and Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. Her research includes the fundamental forces of nature and dimensions of space. She studies the Standa ...
,