Rachel Nuwer

Rachel Nuwer is a freelance science journalist who contributes to outlets such as the New York Times, Smithsonian and BBC Future. She lives in Brooklyn with a large orange cat.

EUPHORIC

How MDMA Became the Club Drug of the Century

Seemingly overnight, it became the drug of nightlife.

Rachel Nuwer

AGING IN PRISON

How OITNB Flubbed Compassionate Release

A distressing scene from ‘Orange Is the New Black’ in which an elderly inmate with Alzheimer’s is turned out onto the street to die probably wouldn’t have happened in real life.

Rachel Nuwer