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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. Tech

    Hopping robot powered by explosions

    A soft-bodied robot that can jump with the help of an explosion could one day aid search-and-rescue operations.

  2. Tech

    Octobot uses webbed arms to swim faster

    Octopus-inspired robot could one day help researchers observe underwater ecosystems.

  3. Paleontology

    Fossils push back origins of modern mammals

    Fossils of three newly identified early mammals from China suggest that the common ancestor of today’s mammals lived over 200 million years ago.

  4. Archaeology

    Pyramid builders could have used rolling blocks

    Instead of sliding blocks on a ramp, ancient Egyptians could have rolled the massive bricks to the pyramids, a physicist suggests.

  5. Paleontology

    ‘Dinosaur 13’ details custody battle for largest T. rex

    Documentary details nasty custody battle over the dinosaur nicknamed Sue, the largest T. rex skeleton ever found.

  6. Paleontology

    World’s largest dinosaur discovered

    A plant-eating dinosaur named Dreadnoughtus schrani has claimed the record for most massive land animal discovered to date.

  7. Health & Medicine

    Rabies races up nerve cells

    By hijacking a transporter protein and hitting the gas, the disease-causing rabies virus races up long nerve cells that stretch through the body, a new study finds.

  8. Life

    Gut bacteria may prevent food allergies

    In mice, gut bacteria blocked food from seeping out of the intestines and triggering an immune reaction in the bloodstream.

  9. Life

    Grizzly bears master healthy obesity

    Tuned insulin signals explain how grizzly bears can fatten up for hibernation in the winter without developing diabetes.

  10. Math

    Father-son mathematicians fold math into fonts

    MIT’s Erik and Martin Demaine create puzzle typefaces to test new ideas.

  11. Planetary Science

    NASA bets on asteroid mission as best path to Mars

    NASA wants to bag an asteroid using robotic arms or an enormous sack and place the rock in the moon’s orbit for study. This may keep astronauts working but not, as NASA claims, get them Mars-ready.

  12. Tech

    Robots start flat, then pop into shape and crawl

    The machines use heated hinges to transform into shape and crawl around.