On October 22, Vox co-hosted a screening event honoring the 2026 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science grant awardees.
The program awards five women scientists postdoctoral grants to advance their research. This year’s recipients work in fields including immunology, planetary science, and ecology. Learn more about the 2026 recipients here.
The evening was emceed by aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe and featured a cocktail reception, a panel discussion and a screening of five documentary profiles produced by Vox Creative. The full profiles can be viewed here.
Applications for the 2027 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science US program are now open.
Vox today announced the launch of a new mobile app, bringing together all of the brand’s work across podcasts, videos, and written stories in one place. The app is free to download in the Apple App Store or Google Play Store, and users who are not existing Vox Members receive a 14-day free trial when they sign up.
“We’re excited to bring Vox’s audience an app that does justice to our work across written, audio, and video journalism. Users can properly enjoy them all in one place for the first time, and I hope the app will introduce them to aspects of our work that they were not familiar with,” said Swati Sharma, Vox’s editor-in-chief and publisher.
Every story Vox publishes will land in the app’s Home tab, where users can navigate between Featured stories and the Latest published. For a quick take on what’s important today, there is a Start Here section. The app experience for members features ad-free listening of Vox’s award-winning podcasts, including Today, Explained with Sean Rameswaram and Noel King, America, Actually with Astead Herndon, Unexplainable, The Gray Area, and Explain It to Me. The app’s Video tab is a new way to deliver Vox’s short-form videos on the big topics shaping the audience’s life. Additionally, the best of Vox’s longer videos are available in a Featured Video section in the Home tab, including in-depth explainers and member-exclusive segments from Vox’s podcasts.
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On October 22, Vox is co-hosting a panel and reception honoring the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science 2026 US program, our second year celebrating the awardees.
The program, part of the global L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science US initiative, recognizes five women postdoctoral scientists whose research ranges from bioengineering to astronomy. Meet them below:
Dr. Danielle Stevens: Innate Immunity, Computational Biology — University of California, Berkeley
Using artificial intelligence to speed up the engineering of disease-resistant crops by targeting plant immune receptors, with the goal of cutting global pesticide use and protecting our food supply.
Dr. Anna Romanov: Bioengineering: Immunology — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Integrating bioengineering, synthetic biology, and immunology to build molecular technologies that reveal how B-cells evolve, then applying those insights to the development of vaccines and biologic therapies.
Dr. Katherine Lagerstrom: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology — Princeton University
Studying how human-driven change — pollution, antibiotics, captivity, and human contact — reshapes animal microbiomes and the way microbes evolve, including the spread of antibiotic resistance in the gut microbiome.
Dr. Clarissa Do Ó: Astronomy & Planetary Sciences — California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Building the tools and technologies used to photograph planets beyond our solar system, laying the groundwork for finding new Earth-like planets rotating around Sun-like stars to allow deeper understanding of where our own planet fits in the universe.
Dr. Tana Pottorf: Neuroimmunology — The Ohio State University
Investigating the role of immune cells (macrophages) after spinal cord injury, aiming to develop therapies that preserve their helpful effects while curbing chronic inflammation and improving recovery.
At the event, Vox Media Creative will premiere five short documentaries exploring these scientists’ groundbreaking work.
Applications for the 2027 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science US program are now open.
Kyla Scanlon, New York Times bestselling author and economic commentator, and Vox today announced the launch of Best of Luck, a new weekly video interview podcast premiering October 27. Each week, Scanlon will sit down with guests who have something to teach us about how to build a meaningful career in this uncertain moment, from economists to journalists, farmers to comedians. They’ll share their most instructive detours, setbacks, and successes, and Scanlon will tie each story back to the economy that we’re all living in, with takeaways for anyone at any stage of their working life.
“So much of the advice we are given about building a career still comes from an economy that doesn’t really exist anymore,” Scanlon said. “There is no one right way to build a career, especially now. The goal of this show is to ask guests how they actually did it, across the best parts, the worst parts, and the parts that were lucky. Then we put it to work! Every guest sits for a mock job interview and does an advice autopsy, and we talk about how you build your own luck. Hearing how other people found their path can help all of us make better decisions about our own.”
Named to the Time 100’s Creators list and Barron’s 100 Most Influential Women in Finance, Scanlon has emerged as one of the most distinct voices making economics make sense for everyone, especially a new generation. Known for breaking down complex economic ideas and connecting them to the realities of everyday life, she coined the term “vibecession” to describe the disconnect between economic data and how people actually feel about the economy. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller In This Economy? How Money & Markets Really Work, a CNN contributor and analyst, and a monthly New York Times Opinion contributor.
“At Vox, we have long been fans of Kyla’s work — her approach to explaining the economy in an accessible, approachable way really personifies Vox’s explanatory approach,” said Swati Sharma, editor-in-chief and publisher at Vox. “With this new show, we’re thrilled for her to help our audience understand how to navigate work and careers in this economy so they can live more meaningful lives.”
“Kyla has a gift for translating the big, confusing picture of our economy into what it means for each of us,” said Lillian Xu, vice president of podcast business at Vox Media. “With Best of Luck, she’s doing the same for a job market that keeps changing the rules, in conversations with experts that are practical and honest about how careers really unfold today. We’re so excited to partner with her to help more people figure out what’s next.”
The trailer for Best of Luck is out today, with the first episode coming on October 27 and new episodes following weekly on Tuesdays.
At Vox, Best of Luck joins a stable of popular podcasts including Today, Explained, The Gray Area, and America, Actually. Vox’s shows are part of the Vox Media Podcast Network, one of the largest US podcast publishers and home to some of the most influential talent across categories, including journalist Kara Swisher and entrepreneur Scott Galloway (hosts of Pivot), tennis champion Maria Sharapova (host of Pretty Tough), former Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara (host of Stay Tuned), basketball legend Sue Bird (host of Bird’s Eye View), and more. Vox Media will oversee production, sales, marketing, and distribution for Best of Luck, which joins a dynamic slate of shows that shape conversations across business, culture, and beyond.
Kyla Scanlon is the founder of Kyla Labs. She writes about money, markets, and the systems that shape them for an audience of over 1 million people across TikTok, Instagram, Substack, and YouTube, covering the pressing issues of the day — including tariffs, artificial intelligence, energy markets, and why the traditional rungs of the economic ladder have gotten harder to climb. Her debut book, In This Economy? How Money & Markets Really Work, was a New York Times bestseller and used hand-drawn diagrams to make the machinery of the economy clear. In her newsletter, she coined the term “vibecession” to describe the disconnect between strong economic data and negative public sentiment — a concept since referenced by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and taken up in research by former CEA chair Jared Bernstein.
Raised in Kentucky, Scanlon studied finance, economics, and data analytics at Western Kentucky University. She started out trading options and selling cars, where she first saw how inaccessible finance had become to the people it affected most. She began making whiteboard videos and comedy skits to decode markets and economic trends for everyday audiences (and often dressed up as Jerome Powell). She writes monthly for New York Times Opinion, has a video partnership with Foreign Policy, and is a contributor and analyst at CNN. She is also a senior fellow at the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator and a research fellow at the American Institute for Boys and Men. Scanlon was named to Barron’s 100 Most Influential Women in US Finance and the Time 100 Creators list, and has appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Ezra Klein Show. At work on her second book, she lives in the mountains with her dog, Piglet.
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Vox was launched in 2014 to address the disconnect between the widely reported facts of the day and a true understanding of why something happened. It developed a widely imitated explainer format that delivers understanding across digital platforms, newsletters, a YouTube channel with nearly 13 million subscribers, and a stable of podcasts. Under the leadership of Editor-in-Chief Swati Sharma, Vox has grown a membership programs with tens of thousands of paying subscribers.
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