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

    Scaffolding props up failing hearts

    Hydrogel treatment stimulates cell repair and blood vessel regrowth in pig experiments.

  2. Science & Society

    There’s nothing special about thinking that kids think they’re extra special

  3. Life

    Rabies resistance arises in backwater thick with vampire bats

    Residents of two remote Peruvian communities appear to have survived infection by the deadly virus.

  4. Humans

    Top airports for spreading germs ID’d

    Major hubs with far-flung flights are most efficient at launching pandemics.

  5. Humans

    Altruistic kidney donors help many

    Mass exchanges result in more kidneys for difficult-to-match recipients.

  6. Life

    Fake jellyfish so real it even swims

    Constructed of silicone and heart cells, medusoid moves like the real thing.

  7. Humans

    Afghanistan on 240 incidents a week

    A computer simulation forecasts insurgent activity by analyzing U.S. military logs released on WikiLeaks.

  8. Life

    Blog: Arsenic-based life gets even more toxic

    With a pair of new papers, scientists have driven two more stakes through the heart of a controversial research finding that its authors won’t let die.

  9. Science & Society

    Movie heists notwithstanding, when crime does pay, it’s not very much

  10. Humans

    What Silicon Valley can learn from Mother Russia

    Imperial tax records from the last decades of the Empire offer clues to what makes a start-up succeed.

  11. Tech

    Interactive map like GPS for Roman Empire

    A simulation calculates the cost in days and dinarii of shipping goods throughout the classical world.

  12. Tech

    The descent of music

    Using an evolutionary process, researchers create pleasing tunes out of grating noise.