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Meghan Rosen

Staff Writer, Biological Sciences

Meghan Rosen is a staff writer who reports on the life sciences for Science News. She earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology with an emphasis in biotechnology from the University of California, Davis, and later graduated from the science communication program at UC Santa Cruz. Prior to joining Science News in 2022, she was a media relations manager at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Her work has appeared in Wired, Science, and The Washington Post, among other outlets. Once for McSweeney’s, she wrote about her kids’ habit of handing her trash, a story that still makes her (and them) laugh.

All Stories by Meghan Rosen

  1. Health & Medicine

    Smell test may detect autism

    A quick sniff test could reveal whether or not a child has autism, but some scientists have doubts.

  2. Physics

    ‘The Science of TV’s the Big Bang Theory’ educates as it entertains

    A science book inspired by fictional scientists helps readers understand everything from particle physics to potato electricity.

  3. Tiny tweaks helped flu strains thwart 2014-2015 vaccine

    Changes to the flu strains circulating around the Northern Hemisphere explain why last year’s flu vaccine didn’t work so well.

  4. Health & Medicine

    Switching off nerve cells eases asthma attacks

    A drug that numbs nerve cells in mice’s airways offers a new way to ease the effects of an asthma attack.

  5. Genetics

    Ivory DNA pinpoints poaching hot spots

    Genetic analysis of ivory DNA reveals major poaching hot spots in Africa.

  6. Health & Medicine

    Antibiotics can treat appendicitis

    Antibiotics can successfully treat the majority of cases of a type of appendicitis, researchers find.

  7. Health & Medicine

    Antibiotics an alternative to surgery for appendicitis

    Doctors could abandon routine surgery for uncomplicated cases of appendicitis, a new study suggests.

  8. Health & Medicine

    Unlike moms, dads tend not to coo in squeaky voices

    American English-speaking moms dial up their pitch drastically when talking to their children, but dads’ voices tend to stay steady, a new study finds.

  9. Paleontology

    New analysis cuts massive dino’s weight in half

    Gigantic dinosaur Dreadnoughtus may have weighed only about half of what scientists estimated last year.

  10. Tech

    Humanoid robot tops other bots in defense agency’s challenge

    A humanoid robot named DRC-HUBO won first place in DARPA’s Robotic Challenge, held June 5-6.

  11. Health & Medicine

    Rotavirus vaccine is proving its worth

    Rotavirus vaccination cuts childhood intestinal infection hospitalizations in half.

  12. Genetics

    DNA tags mostly deleted in human germ cells

    Human embryos come with some heavy-duty erasers. Chemical tags on DNA get mostly wiped out in the womb.