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. Beware the Long Tail

    Economic models of risk don’t add up, cadre of researchers caution.

  2. Chemistry

    Unusual crystal patterns win chemistry Nobel

    First rejected as impossible, the discovery that atoms can pack in subtly varied patterns forced revisions of fundamental concepts.

  3. Chemistry

    Miracle fruit secret revealed

    Bizarre berry works by sensitizing the tongue's sweet sensors to acidic flavors.

  4. Chemistry

    Science gets the deets on DEET

    New research demonstrates how insect repellent may mix up mosquitoes’ smelling machinery.

  5. Chemistry

    Molecular muscle gets the job done

    Chemists solve a stubborn problem by resorting to strong-arm tactics.

  6. Humans

    In online reviews, patterns in vocabulary can betray deceit

  7. Science From On High

    Google Earth gives researchers new access.

  8. Chemistry

    Explosive goes boom, but not too soon

    Leavening a volatile new material with good old TNT yields a substance that’s safer to handle and easily reverted into a highly potent form.

  9. Tech

    Mining electronic records yields connections between diseases

    Mining patient records, combined with molecular research, may reveal new links among medical conditions.

  10. Humans

    Beneficial liaisons

    DNA gift from our extinct cousins not only lives on in people today, but helps people today live on.

  11. Humans

    The world’s oldest profession: chef

    The invention of cooking almost 2 million years ago was a central event in human evolution, a new study suggests.

  12. Humans

    Financial world dominated by a few deep pockets

    Analysis suggests a small number of firms control a big share of global wealth.