Rachel Ehrenberg

Previously the interdisciplinary sciences and chemistry reporter and author of the Culture Beaker blog, Rachel has written about new explosives, the perils and promise of 3-D printing and how to detect corruption in networks of email correspondence. Rachel was a 2013-2014 Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT. She has degrees in botany and political science from the University of Vermont and a master’s in evolutionary biology from the University of Michigan. She graduated from the science writing program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

All Stories by Rachel Ehrenberg

  1. Chemistry

    Bitter and sour taste detectors also say, ‘too salty’

    Mice that can’t sense the two tastes find high sodium attractive.

  2. Science & Society

    In Hollywood, buzz beats star power when it comes to predicting box office take

  3. Archaeology

    A king’s final hours, told by his mortal remains

    The skeleton of Richard III reveals a violent and chaotic end for a controversial English monarch.

  4. Chemistry

    Gold-digging microbe

    By spitting out a molecule, a bacterium draws solid gold out of solution.

  5. Humans

    Published clinical trials shown to be misleading

    A comparison of internal and public reports about Pfizer’s drug Neurontin reveals many discrepancies.

  6. Life

    Caribbean’s coral reefs approach tipping point

    A survey of 19 colonies suggests many may soon begin to shrink.

  7. Tech

    DNA stores poems, a photo and a speech

    The molecule swaps its biological role for a computational one, that of long-term data storage.

  8. Tech

    Trick of light makes microwave imaging simple

    Metamaterials and math combine to produce a quick, cheap system.

  9. Humans

    International Conference on Complex Sciences

    Researchers at the meeting, held December 5-7 in Santa Fe, N.M., offer insight into spam blocking and sick leave.

  10. Chemistry

    Repellent slime has material virtues

    Threads isolated from hagfishes' defensive goo demonstrate superior strength and flexibility.

  11. Finding new ways to spell L-I-F-E

    XNA molecules join DNA and RNA in the genetic catalog.

  12. Science & Society

    Scientists take on Twitter

    Social media comes into its own as a tool and a subject for study.