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. Neuroscience

    Hurt Blocker

    The next big pain drug may soothe sensory firestorms without side effects.

  2. Physics

    The electric flour voltage test

    Granular materials give off a zap just before slipping, a finding with potential implications for sensing the starts of silo disasters or earthquakes.

  3. Chemistry

    Youngsters can sniff out old people’s scent

    Body odor changes detectably with age, becoming mellower in men and not at all offensive in either sex — even to young people.

  4. Tech

    Bacterial trick keeps robots in sync

    Communicating information about the environment allows a stumbling machine to rejoin its group.

  5. Tech

    Imperfect chip pretty darn good

    Faster, smaller and more efficient, processors with that cut corners can still be good for some applications.

  6. Science & Society

    Despite more time for celebrity news, duration of fame remains the same

  7. Tech

    Paralyzed woman grips, sips coffee with robot arm

    For the first time, a brain-computer interface is powerful enough to enable useful movement in human patients.

  8. Retinal implants could restore partial vision

    In lab tests on rat retinas, a photovoltaic chip helps display images through special goggles.

  9. Humans

    Crime numbers may mislead

    Criminologists argue that city safety rankings should consider underreporting and other sources of error in compiling statistics.

  10. Science & Society

    Here’s looking at how the usual suspect film quotes go ahead and make your day

  11. Life

    Bony bacteria

    A newly described species of blue-green algae builds hard structures inside its cells.

  12. Chemistry

    Synthetic heredity molecules emulate DNA

    Scientists have created six XNAs that, like the genetic building blocks they mimic, can store and pass on hereditary information.