Erin Blakemore

Erin Blakemore

 

Erin Blakemore is a Boulder, Colorado-based journalist. Her work has appeared in publications like The Washington Post, TIME, mental_floss, Popular Science and JSTOR Daily. Learn more at erinblakemore.com.

The Great Hall of the People in Beijing is now on a 20th-century cultural preservation list in China.

China Now Has a 20th-Century Architectural Heritage List

A country with an uneasy relationship to its past will preserve 98 buildings of the 20th century for future generations

A before-and-after composite shows the lunar surface with a surprising starburst-like jet pattern.

Craters Are Forming on the Moon Faster Than Anyone Predicted

New research digs into the changes on the pockmarked lunar surface

Human blood contains red blood cells, T-cells (orange) and platelets (green)

Scientists Are Creating an Atlas of Human Cells

The Human Cell Atlas will boldly go where science, surprisingly, hasn’t gone before

Protestors at Tiananmen Square in 1989

China Will Finally Release the Last Tiananmen Square Prisoner

Miao Deshun has been in prison for the majority of his life

John Cohen photographs a young Bob Dylan playing his guitar and harmonica in New York City in 1962.

Five Things to Know About Bob Dylan

When it comes to awards, the times are a' changin'—and now the iconic musician is a Nobel laureate

Obama Just Signed a Law Mandating Diaper Changing Tables in Men's Restrooms

The BABIES Act will put changing tables in men's rooms in public, federal facilities

The Countess of Computing was the daughter of the Princess of Parallelograms.

Five Things to Know About Ada Lovelace

The “Countess of Computing” didn’t just create the world’s first computer program—she foresaw a digital future

These cans are more influential than you might have guessed.

New Study Highlights Coke and Pepsi's Uncomfortable Links to Health Organizations

In five years, the two soda companies sponsored at least 96 health and medical groups

People protest the Ethiopian government's alleged killing of Oromo students and seizure of Oromo lands in Addis Ababa in 2014.

Why Ethiopia Just Declared a State of Emergency

Anti-government protests have roiled the fast-growing country

Clyde R. Meyers, Denham Springs flood survivor, holds a photograph of his parents, saturated with floodwater from the 2016 historic flooding in Louisiana.

How to Save Family Heirlooms from Natural Disasters

It isn't easy to save cultural heritage from the ravages of nature, but a national task force thinks it's worth trying

Paris, 1739.

This Is What 18th-Century Paris Sounded Like

A bygone age comes back to life in this painstaking reconstruction of the sounds of 1739

Could your next teacher be a bumblebee?

Bumblebees Are Tiny Teachers

The fuzzy, buzzy creatures are capable of more than you might think

Food prices are getting higher. Or lower. Whichever.

Why Those Headlines About Rising Food Costs Are So Confusing

There's more to the story

Each crossing incorporates the existing zebra-style design.

Colorful Crosswalks Paint the Streets of Madrid

This art was made to be stepped all over

Who says you can't buy friendship?

Toyota Hopes This Adorable Robot Will Make Japan Less Lonely

Meet your $390 best friend

The room has plenty of "Hudson River light" to spark the artist in a lucky bidder and their guest.

Channel Edward Hopper With a Night in His Bedroom

Stay in the childhood home of one of history’s greatest painters

These seemingly inhabited buildings are actually vacant properties illuminated by the new Breathing Lights project in three New York cities.

This Art Project Breathes New Life Into Blighted Buildings

<i>Breathing Lights</i> will illuminate hundreds of abandoned structures throughout New York

Scores of lives were lost while building the 816 Nuclear Plant, a long-abandoned nuclear project now open to the public.

Tour the World’s Biggest Manmade Cave in China

The 816 Nuclear Plant stands as a reminder of a paranoid past

Kure Atoll, the northernmost reef in the Hawaiian archipelago, hosts mesophotic reefs with the most species unique to a specific location found in any marine ecosystem on Earth.

Here’s What Scientists Found in Hawaii’s Mysterious “Twilight Zone”

Deep coral reefs reveal their secrets in a study two decades in the making

One of the largest sprite bursts to ever be caught on camera flashes in the sky over Puerto Rico, October 1, 2016.

Vibrant Lightning Sprites Spark Above Hurricane Matthew

A photographer’s good eye captures an elusive phenomenon

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