Joshua Shavit

Science and Good News Writer

Joshua Shavit
Science & Technology Writer | AI and Robotics Reporter

Joshua Shavit is a Los Angeles-based science and technology writer with a passion for exploring the breakthroughs shaping the future. As a contributor to The Brighter Side of News, he focuses on positive and transformative advancements in AI, technology, physics, engineering, robotics and space science. Joshua is currently working towards a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration at the University of California, Berkeley. He combines his academic background with a talent for storytelling, making complex scientific discoveries engaging and accessible. His work highlights the innovators behind the ideas, bringing readers closer to the people driving progress.

Recent Stories from Joshua Shavit

New research links South Africa’s rising land to drought-related water loss.

Satellite data reveals climate change is lifting South Africa out of the ocean

For years, scientists haven’t been able to pin down just how much carbon plants take in, or where and when they do it.

Worldwide increase in plant CO2 capture signals major climate shift

$Prof. Norman Wildberger says the new polynomial method has both theoretical and practical applications.$

Irrational meets the radical: Mathematician solves one of algebra’s oldest problems

Dark energy density and star formation rates shape the Universe's potential for intelligent life in our cosmos and beyond.

Scientists link dark energy to alien life in the multiverse

AltoVolo’s Sigma is a quiet, long-range hybrid jet redefining flight with vertical takeoff, private comfort, and driveway-sized dimensions.

AltoVolo’s 220 mph hybrid eVTOL aircraft redefines personal air travel

Tokyo Metropolitan University offers new insight into how the brain’s support cells, known as glia, might be involved in this destructive process

Scientists discover an exciting new way to treat Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases

The ion trap of the new In+/Yb+-crystal clock in its vacuum chamber. The Ions are trapped in the gap that can be seen in the middle of the picture between the gold electrodes (target). A shown-up picture: a crystal from indium- (pink) and ytterbium (blue) ions.

New optical atomic clock is 1,000x more accurate than today’s standard

At about 120 million years old and larger than Alaska, this seafloor plateau is the most voluminous volcanic structure on Earth.

Geologists solve one of Earth’s oldest volcanic “super-eruption” mysteries

Artificial channels inspired by biology offer a cleaner, more precise way to extract rare earth elements

Researchers develop a more efficient and cleaner approach to extracting rare earth elements

NAD+ Restoration Found to Protect Liver from DNA Damage

Breakthrough treatment offers new hope in the fight against fatty liver disease

A giant flare from a highly magnetized star called a magnetar can produce heavy elements such as gold and platinum, new research shows. The magnetar’s strong, twisted magnetic field lines (shown in green) can influence the flow of electrically charged material from the object.

Star flares blast out massive amounts of gold across the galaxy

A 4,800-year-old tree named Methuselah survives in California’s mountains

At 4,800-years-old, the world’s oldest living tree predates the Egyptian pyramids

Over the past 72 years, China’s Green Great Wall has turned vast stretches of desert into flourishing ecosystems, tackling both desertification and rural poverty.

The Green Great Wall: China’s 47 year effort at combating climate and land degradation

Physicists have successfully built a "black hole bomb" analog in the lab

Scientists create world’s first black hole bomb in the lab

Stewart Mallory, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical engineering at Penn State, leads a research group that studies active matter, specifically the collective behavior of self-propelled microscopic particles.

Microscopic robots are transforming health, technology, and the environment

A newly found dormant black hole, detected just 800 million years after the Big Bang, challenges what scientists thought about cosmic growth.

Massive black hole found taking a ‘nap’ after overeating

Plasma Jet Engines Could Revolutionize Aviation and End Fossil Fuel Dependency

Next-generation jet engine converts electricity directly into thrust

TOI-715 b, a super-Earth discovered by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), resides 137 light-years away.

Scientists find Earth-like exoplanets to be common in the universe

General relativity predicts that the only rotating black hole solution is the Kerr spacetime.

Scientists finally solve thirty-year-old black hole mystery

A new study uncovers how a common gene causes Alzheimer’s in patients without genetic mutations, paving the way for early treatments.

Breakthrough AI finds a cause and treatment candidate for Alzheimer’s