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

    Dream contents deciphered by computer

    Similar brain patterns emerge when seeing an object and conjuring it during sleep.

  2. Humans

    Twitter maps New York City, language by language

    Apart from Spanish tweets that blanket the area, non-English tweets cluster in neighborhoods.

  3. Tech

    Cell phone data analysis dials in crime networks

    A new program mines mobile provider records for suspicious patterns.

  4. Computing

    When trolls come out from under their bridges, it’s bad news for scientific discourse

  5. Tech

    Plastic implant replaces three-quarters of man’s skull

    The polymer cranium was made using a 3-D printer.

  6. Tech

    Facebook ‘likes’ can reveal users’ politics, sexual orientation, IQ

    With data from thousands of volunteers, researchers connect social media activity to personal traits.

  7. Chemistry

    Caffeine’s buzz attracts bees to flowers

    Nectar of some blooms carries the drug, which improves bee memory.

  8. Chemistry

    Missing link in taste chain identified

    Taste-cell protein sends message to brain that tongue has detected sweet, bitter or umami flavor.

  9. Tech

    Rats do tasks while connected brain-to-brain

    Signals transmitted from one animal to another seem to share information, but usefulness of findings questioned.

  10. Humans

    News In Brief: Lipstick smudges reveal their identity

    Raman spectroscopy allows forensics researchers to distinguish among dozens of lipsticks.

  11. Tech

    The 3-D Printing Revolution

    Using a technique known as 3-D printing, regular people can now make goods typically produced in huge quantities in factories overseas.

  12. Tech

    Imaging technique offers look inside hearing loss

    Two-photon microscopy visualizes hair cells in the inner ear, offering insights into processes leading to deafness.