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. Health & Medicine

    Wheat genome announcement turns out to be small beer

    The DNA sequence released by U.K. team still requires assembly.

  2. Plants

    Evergreen source of Tamiflu

    Pine and spruce needles brim with flu-drug precursor.

  3. Plants

    Most energy drinks lag in added health benefits

    Many caffeinated tonics lack natural antioxidants and other beneficial compounds found in coffee, yerba maté and other plant-based drinks.

  4. Tech

    New help for greasy works of art

    NMR technique identifies oil stains, guiding art conservation efforts.

  5. Chemistry

    Tracking bird flu one poop at a time

    Mice can sniff out duck droppings laced with the virus.

  6. Health & Medicine

    New gel seals wounds fast

    A synthetic material revs up blood clotting at low cost.

  7. Computing

    Going viral takes a posse, not an army

    Quality of followers, not quantity, determines which tweets will fly

  8. Plants

    Chlorophyll gets an ‘f’

    New variety of photosynthetic pigment is the first to be discovered in 60 years

  9. Humans

    Protecting innocent — and not so innocent — bystanders

    Technique removes pedestrians from Google Street View images.

  10. Tech

    The people’s pulsar

    Thousands of volunteers help discover a neutron star by donating the processing power in their idle home computers.

  11. Life

    Gene licensing stifles R&D

    Making research findings private property can stymie innovation down the road, a new study finds.

  12. Humans

    World of proteincraft

    Players compete to solve scientific puzzles in an online computer game.