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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. Genetics

    Ivory DNA pinpoints poaching hot spots

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

  2. Health & Medicine

    Antibiotics can treat appendicitis

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

  3. Health & Medicine

    Antibiotics an alternative to surgery for appendicitis

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

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. Health & Medicine

    Rotavirus vaccine is proving its worth

    Rotavirus vaccination cuts childhood intestinal infection hospitalizations in half.

  8. 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.

  9. Paleontology

    Dino eggs came in different colors

    Dinosaur eggs came in bold shades of blue-green and brown-speckled blue.

  10. Health & Medicine

    Mice become thin-skinned in space

    Long trips in space may thin the skin.

  11. Health & Medicine

    Mice grow a thinner skin during long stays in space

    Mice that spent three months in space had thinner skin and extra hair growth compared with rodents that were grounded on Earth.

  12. Health & Medicine

    One in 10 people with tattoos experience rashes, scarring or other problems

    Tattoos carry risk of long-term rash; red ink may be most irritating color.