[2] 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.

She wrote about her experiences with the social expectations and medical regulation surrounding abortions and miscarriage in a series of blog entries.

[8][9][10] 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.

[11][3][12] She has also contributed to Discover, Popular Science, New Scientist, Scientific American, and National Geographic.

[15] In June 2014, Koerth was named one of two Nieman-Berkman Fellows in journalism innovation at Harvard University.