Founded in 2018, and based in Atlanta, The Xylom is a non-profit, Gen-Z-run newsroom covering the communities influencing and being shaped by science. We are the only science outlet run by and for Asian Americans.

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Our reporting revolves around three questions:

1. ​"How can science look more like us?"

2. "How are scientists shaped by what happens outside of the lab?"

3. "How do people respond to the changing world through science?"

We do so through an award-winning collection of original personal essays, longform science features, and resources for early-career science professionals. We also send out a twice-monthly newsletter curating the best science stories in the American South and beyond.

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You might've heard of us when:

• the City of Atlanta deleted a press release after we fact-checked their numerous false claims about the "environmental stewardship" of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center ("Cop City"),

• we became the only outlet in North America to regularly produce science coverage in the Nepali language (among another half-dozen languages we publish in),

• we were the first non-Indian outlet to report on the devastating ecological and economic impacts of the Mumbai Coastal Road as it approaches completion.

We are 100% supported by readers and grants. We will never have a paywall, nor do we sell ads or do sponsored content. We do believe in an open, real-time budget, accurate to the cent, that allows you to see exactly how your donations are making an impact.  

Let's grow science with words, together. #xforxylom