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. Tech

    What parents just don’t understand about online privacy

    Not long ago, police and school officials in Old Saybrook, Conn., held a high school assembly on Internet safety. The purpose of the assembly, wrote New Haven Register reporter Susan Misur, was to make students aware of how public their photos, tweets and profiles are online. To make this point, the presentation included a slide […]

  2. Chemistry

    Coatings have simple recipe for success

    Chemists encapsulate tiny objects using natural ingredients and easy, inexpensive process.

  3. Science & Society

    Math targets cities’ essence

    New formula relates city size to infrastructure, productivity.

  4. Life

    Genes in wheat relatives help stave off stem rust

    Wild and obscure species provide resistance to deadly fungus.

  5. Chemistry

    High methane in drinking water near fracking sites

    Well construction and geology may both play a role in pollution.

  6. Tech

    Eye chip sends signals to blind rats’ brains

    When struck with light, retinal prostheses stimulate animals' visual cortices.

  7. Chemistry

    An eel’s glow could illuminate liver disease

    Fluorescent protein binds to bilirubin, a compound the body must eliminate.

  8. Tech

    Computer scientists grapple with how to manage the digital legacy of the departed

    In April, Google added to its services an Inactive Account Manager, which lets you designate an heir who will control your Google data when you die. You choose a length of inactivity, and if your accounts are ever quiet for that long, Google will notify your heirs that they’ve inherited access to your Gmail correspondence, […]

  9. Neuroscience

    Research prods brain wiring underlying compulsive behavior

    Complementary studies, focusing on repetitive grooming in mice, offer potential for new treatment strategies in humans.

  10. Humans

    Dietary changes accompanied human evolution

    Hominids moved toward eating grasses and away from tree leaves, according to chemical analyses of fossil tooth enamel.

  11. Humans

    Couples who meet online have fine marriages

    Relationship satisfaction for Internet daters is similar to that of people who find potential partners in more traditional ways.

  12. Paleontology

    Fossil muddies the origin of birds

    New specimen may be a feathered dinosaur — or the earliest avian yet discovered