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

    Life expectancy up when cities clean the air

    Study shows people live longer after fine-particulate air pollution is reduced.

  2. Life

    Evolution’s Evolution

    Darwin’s dangerous idea has adapted to modern biology

  3. Earth

    Livestock manure stinks for infant health

    Megafarm production associated with infant illness and death rates.

  4. Health & Medicine

    Record low for human blood oxygen levels

    Study of Mt. Everest climbers shows some bodies can tolerate low oxygen levels that are toxic to others.

  5. Life

    Fat cells also linked to prion infection

    Disease-causing misfolded proteins at home in a growing list of tissues, organs.

  6. Health & Medicine

    Many drug trials never see publication

    Results of most drug trials are unreported, inaccessible to clinicians and patients, a new study confirms.

  7. Physics

    Take the time to break quantum encryption

    A time-travel scenario permitted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity offers a bit of possibility for breaking quantum encryption.

  8. Chemistry

    Household cleaner makes blood removal simple!

    Common household “oxy” cleaners remove blood almost too well.

  9. Chemistry

    Silk

    Mimicking how spiders make their complex array of silks could usher in a tapestry of new materials, and other animals or plants could be designed to be the producers.

  10. Humans

    Middle schoolers earn top prizes in science competition

    Five winners awarded top prizes in the Society for Science & the Public’s national science competition for middle school students.

  11. Life

    Heat sensors guide insects to a hot meal

    Bugs home in on seeds by detecting infrared radiation.

  12. Humans

    Elephants’ struggle with poaching lingers on

    Even as African elephants struggle to recover from decades-old poaching, the animals face new and renewed threats today.