Joseph Bennington-Castro

Joey is a science writer based in Hawaiʻi. He has written more than 1,000 articles for the general public on a wide range of topics, including health, astronomy, archaeology, renewable energy, biomaterials, conservation, history, animal behavior, artificial intelligence, and many others. Joey has written for numerous publications such as Scientific American, National Geographic online, USA Today, the Materials Research Society, Wired UK, Men's Journal, Live Science, Space.com, NBC News Mach, NOAA Fisheries, io9.com, and Discover. He holds a B.S. in Physics from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and an M.A. in Journalism with an Advanced Certificate in Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting from New York University.