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. Chemistry

    Light could heal materials

    Scientists have created a new material that repairs itself when exposed to ultraviolet light.

  2. Humans

    Science’s next generation wins accolades

    Star students receive more than $530,000 in scholarships and prizes in the Intel Science Talent Search.

  3. Agriculture

    Gut bacteria ally with Bt

    A new study finds that a particular microbe makes caterpillars susceptible to the insecticide.

  4. Physics

    Black hole constant makes unexpected appearance

    A mathematical constant that emerges only in the unusual conditions of specific black hole systems has shown up in a simple Newtonian system.

  5. Agriculture

    Predators zoom in on lice-infested salmon

    New research reveals another impact of fish farming on wild stocks.

  6. Climate

    The hidden costs of better fuels

    Whether crop-based biofuels will reduce greenhouse gas emissions depends on how, and where, they're grown.

  7. Life

    Mother right whales know best, maybe

    Southern right whales learn where to eat from mom and may not seek new feeding grounds if these favorite restaurants go belly-up.

  8. Ecosystems

    Flowering plants welcome other life

    When angiosperms diversified 100 million years ago, they opened new niches for ants, plants and frogs.

  9. Earth

    Animal ancestors may have survived ‘snowball Earth’

    Chemical fossils in Precambrian sedimentary rock push back the first date for animal life.

  10. Health & Medicine

    Chocolate may have arrived early to U.S. Southwest

    A new study suggests that people in America’s Southwest were making cacao beverages as early as A.D. 1000.

  11. Humans

    Young scientists clear hurdle in national competition

    Intel Science Talent Search finalists announced.

  12. Ecosystems

    Pacific Northwest salmon poisoning killer whales

    A protected population of resident orcas around Vancouver Island and Puget Sound is the planet’s most PCB-contaminated mammals, says one researcher.