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. Physics

    Glacier found to be deeply cracked

    A new study finds deep fissures in Alaska ice that could affect future responses to melting.

  2. Physics

    Being single a real drag for spores

    Launching thousands of gametes at once helps a fungus waft its offspring farther.

  3. Tech

    Tiny tools aren’t toys

    Enzyme-based machinery could have medical applications.

  4. Tech

    Everything really is relative

    Two tabletop experiments demonstrate the time-warping principle at the human scale.

  5. Health & Medicine

    Main malaria parasite came to humans from gorillas, not chimps

    Using DNA from fecal samples, researchers show that the infection was not passed to Homo sapiens by its closest primate relative.

  6. Planetary Science

    Life’s cold start

    Primordial molecules could have replicated themselves in a slushy place, new experiments suggest.

  7. Tech

    To tame traffic, go with the flow

    Lights should respond to cars, a study concludes, not the other way around.

  8. Agriculture

    A taste of the chocolate genome

    Competing teams have announced the impending completion of the cacao DNA sequence.

  9. Rust Never Sleeps

    A new flare-up in an age-old battle between wheat and a fungal killer.

  10. Chemistry

    Cockroach brains, coming to a pharmacy near you

    Insect tissue extracts show antibacterial activity in lab experiments.

  11. Computing

    Most influential media Twitter feeds

    Computer scientists find surprises when they rank top 100.

  12. Chemistry

    Light-harvesting complexes do it themselves

    A new technique could yield solar cells with no repair or assembly required.