In 2009, Koerth co-authored the book
Be Amazing: Glow in the Dark, Control the Weather, Perform Your Own Surgery, Get Out of Jury Duty, Identify a Witch, Colonize a Nation, Impress a Girl, Make a Zombie, Start Your Own Religion with
Will Pearson and
Mangesh Hattikudur, the co-founders of
Mental Floss. The book was described as "a tongue-in-cheek self-improvement guide". She later joined
Boing Boing, where she specialized in science blogging and was known for her ability to explain science coherently and understandably while keeping it interesting. A piece Koerth wrote for
Boing Boing in the wake of the
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster explaining nuclear power plant operations was featured in the anthology
The Best Science Writing Online 2012. In June 2012, Koerth suffered a miscarriage. She wrote about her experiences with the social expectations and medical regulation surrounding abortions and miscarriage in a series of blog entries. Beginning in August 2012, Koerth wrote "Eureka", a monthly column for
The New York Times about research of interest to the layperson at the intersection of science, technology, and culture. She has also contributed to
Discover,
Popular Science,
New Scientist,
Scientific American, and
National Geographic. Koerth worked at
FiveThirtyEight as a senior science editor from 2016 to 2023. As of 2025, she is a science and climate editor at CNN. ==Awards==