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. Math

    Fruit flies teach computers a lesson

    Insect's nerve cell development is a model of efficiency for sensing networks.

  2. Chemistry

    Building big molecules bottom-up

    Using templates, chemists make ring structures on the scale of biological machinery.

  3. Life

    Arkansas birds died of trauma

    Necropsies suggest loud noises caused panic, killing thousands.

  4. Humans

    Babies may sense others’ worldviews earlier than thought

    New study suggests 7-month-olds can recognize that other people's beliefs don't always match reality.

  5. Humans

    Periodic table gets some flex

    IUPAC committee replaces fuzzy atomic weights with more accurate ranges

  6. Chemistry

    Hornet pigment drives solar cell in lab

    Though far from photosynthetic, an insect's light-harvesting apparatus intrigues scientists.

  7. Chemistry

    Clever way to break the nitrogen-nitrogen bond

    New chemical reaction cleaves dinitrogen molecule and brings carbon and nitrogen together.

  8. Chemistry

    Locks to learn

    A new way to probe interactions between pairs of hairs could offer insights into fly-aways and other tonsorial woes.

  9. Science & Society

    E.T.? No. Arsenic? Yes. Maybe. Hmmm.

    NASA's bacterium news sparks criticism.

  10. Chemistry

    Bacterium grows with arsenic

    A microbe appears to substitute a normally toxic element for a basic ingredient of life, raising intriguing questions about the limits of biochemistry.

  11. Chemistry

    The nitty-gritty of diamond polishing

    Researchers figure out what happens at the atomic scale when jewelers polish the hardest substance known.

  12. Humans

    Visor might protect troops from blasts

    Computer simulations show that the current military helmet lets explosive forces into the head through the face.