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. Science & Society

    You’re fast enough, you’re smart enough, and doggone it, you can kill zombies

  2. Math

    Varying efficacy of HIV drug cocktails explained

    Steepness of slope in dose-response curve tips off researchers to importance of timing in virus’s life cycle.

  3. Chemistry

    Fats stimulate binge eating

    Much like marijuana, fatty foods can spur overeating, a study in rats shows. The new finding also suggests possible therapies to combat the munchies.

  4. Tech

    Batteries not included

    Researchers have developed a sensor that, when flexed, generates enough charge to send wireless signals.

  5. Science & Society

    Bieber fever and other contagions reveal some things about fame, money, and us

  6. Chemistry

    Dino proteins could have been sheltered

    An analysis of collagen structure finds protective pockets, backing up claims of preserved tissue finds.

  7. Tech

    New technique spins superlong nanowires

    Made from any number of materials, fibers are millionths of a millimeter across and kilometers long.

  8. Chemistry

    Water-air interface barely there

    The transition between gas and liquid is an extremely insubstantial affair.

  9. Tech

    Information flow can reveal dirty deeds

    An analysis of Enron e-mails reveals that corrupt networks have a distinctive shape.

  10. Humans

    Counterfeit Crackdown

    New scientific tools help tell fake meds from the real thing.

  11. Other shoe drops on arsenic-eating bugs

    A journal publishes responses to its recent paper suggesting that some microbes can live on a poisonous substance.

  12. Chemistry

    Natural pain-killing chemical synthesized

    Conolidine — a headache to isolate from the plant that makes it — can now be produced from scratch in the lab, opening the promising compound to study.