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. Humans

    Wine-trashing microbe identified

    In finding the source of the off-tasting molecule MDMP, researchers hope to point the way to eliminating it.

  2. Humans

    Amphibian debuts

    Hunt for lost frog turns up new species in Colombian rain forests.

  3. Tiny tubes, big riddles

    Carbon cylinders’ odd traits continue to stump scientists.

  4. Animals

    DEET of the sea

    Before turning in for the night, some reef-dwelling fish apply a slimy mucus shield to deter biting bugs.

  5. Humans

    Building a better bomb sniffer

    A new handheld device detects TATP, an explosive that is easy to make but hard to detect.

  6. Tech

    Trading places

    As the pace of financial transactions accelerates, researchers look forward to a time when the only limiting factor is the speed of light.

  7. Chemistry

    Breathe better with bitter

    Taste receptors in the lungs open airways in response to acrid gases.

  8. Chemistry

    Guards of the blood-brain barrier identified

    Specialized cells called pericytes are crucial to protecting the central nervous system, two new studies demonstrate.

  9. Life

    New species a little nipper

    A mongoose-like creature from Madagascar is the first new carnivore to be discovered in more than two decades.

  10. Science & Society

    2010 Nobels recognize potential of basic science to shape the world

    Prizes go to IVF, graphene and ‘carbon chemistry at its best’

  11. Life

    One small step for a snail, one giant leap for snailkind

    Experiments suggest that gastropods shed their shells in one fell swoop during the evolutionary transition that created slugs.

  12. Chemistry

    Basic tool for making organic molecules wins chemistry Nobel

    Three researchers get prize for developing methods that use the metal palladium to catalyze the synthesis of complex carbon carbon-containing molecules for drugs, electronics and other applications.