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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. Paleontology

    Dinosaurs shrank continually into birds

    Steady miniaturization and rapidly changing skeletons transformed massive animals into today’s fliers.

  2. Tech

    With two robotic fingers, humans get a helping hand

    Mechanical fingers grasp like the real thing.

  3. Paleontology

    Feathered dinosaurs may have been the rule, not the exception

    Newly discovered fossil suggests feathers may have been common among all dinosaur species.

  4. Tech

    Wax-coated plastic morphs between soft and stiff

    Heat-controlled materials could serve as skeleton for shape-shifting robots.

  5. Paleontology

    Baby mammoths died traumatic deaths

    CT scans show that two young mammoths probably suffocated.

  6. Paleontology

    Duck-billed dinosaurs roamed the Arctic in herds

    Young and old duck-billed dinosaurs lived together in herds in the Arctic, tracks preserved in Alaska indicate.

  7. Earth

    Oklahoma earthquakes triggered by wastewater injection

    Dumping wastewater from the oil and gas industry into disposal wells may have set off swarm of earthquakes in Oklahoma.

  8. Astronomy

    Magnetic bubbles could shield astronauts from radiation

    With help from plasma and a magnet, solar storms' dangers would lessen on long space trips.

  9. Life

    Dinos straddled line between cold- and warm-blooded

    Tyrannosaurus rex and other dinosaurs straddled line between cold- and warm-blood, a new analysis finds.

  10. Paleontology

    Preserved pterosaur eggs hint at reptile’s social life

    The first 3-D pterosaur eggs, which were found in China, suggest that the flying reptiles laid eggs together.

  11. Planetary Science

    Moon’s origins revealed in rocks’ chemistry

    A new chemical measurement of rocks from Earth and from the moon supports the giant impact hypothesis, which explains how the moon formed billions of years ago.

  12. Life

    Drug candidate takes new aim at MERS

    An experimental drug that shuts down construction of virus-making factories could become a new weapon against MERS.