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.

Looking toward the sunlit side of Saturn's rings, Cassini captured this image in violet light on Oct. 28, 2016.

Cassini Survives Its Daredevil Plunge Toward Saturn

The craft’s first date with the “big empty” went off without a hitch

The Museum of Migration tells the stories of the UK's immigrants.

Museum of Migration Opens in London

The ambitious museum brings new perspective to a city shaped by immigrants

As many as 4,000 snow machines could soon preserve the ice on this Swiss glacier.

Can Snow Machines Save Swiss Glaciers?

As many as 4,000 could be deployed to insulate ice on Morteratsch

New York restaurants donated these oyster shells to the project. They'll be used to grow new oysters as part of an ambitious restoration program.

Why New York Schoolchildren Want to Grow a Billion Oysters

It's a grand attempt to restore a ravaged estuary

Thank luciferin for mushrooms' mysterious glow.

The Secret Behind Bioluminescent Mushrooms’ Magic Glow

Scientists use chemistry to account for an astonishing phenomenon

An artist's rendering imagines what Cassini must have looked like as it headed on the first of a series of orbits between Saturn and its rings.

Cassini Makes a Daring Dive

The spacecraft is out of contact as it begins a series of dramatic orbits between Saturn and its rings

Munch's artistic freakout may have been inspired by mother-of-pearl clouds.

“The Scream” Might Have Been Inspired By a Rare Type of Cloud

Did mother-of-pearl clouds stoke a painter's angst?

Emoji cover the facade of this Dutch building.

This Building Is Covered in Emoji

-Person raising both hands in celebration-

Everything's better at night.

Time-Lapse Video Captures the Breathtaking Glow of Hawaii's Night Sky

<i>Skyglow</i> allows you to revel in an increasingly rare sight: a starry night

This New Orleans monument to a white supremacist riot no longer exists.

New Orleans Tears Down Controversial Confederate Monuments

A 35-foot obelisk in memory of a white supremacist uprising is no more

A baby in Ghana rests underneath a mosquito net. Ghana will become one of three African countries to pilot the new malaria vaccine in 2018.

Hundreds of Thousands of Babies Will Receive World’s First Malaria Vaccine

The pilot program will focus on Kenya, Ghana and Malawi—countries at the center of the global malaria crisis

Meet Steve—a strange band of light first spotted by amateur skywatchers.

Amateur Skywatchers Spot New Atmospheric Phenomenon

Its name is Steve, and it’s more common than you might think

This painting by Adriaen Coorte was among art stolen from an East German art collector by the Stasi in the 1980s.

Germany Will Research Stasi Art Seizures

The Nazis weren’t the only group that looted German treasures

Bangkok Won't Ban Street Food After All

The Tourism Authority of Thailand clarifies that vendors will be able to continue selling street food under new regulations

Mmmmmm ... pretzels.

Salty Food Might Make You Drink Less, Not More

You can thank a future trip to Mars for a surprising new theory on how salt affects the body

Don't grab the galoshes just yet—experts are still not certain if El Niño will develop this year.

The Chance of Another El Niño Is Rising

As the year presses on, the likelihood of another wacky winter has grown

On set with Amybeth

A ‘Breaking Bad’ Writer and Producer Is Behind a New Anne of Green Gables

You might not recognize this Anne—and that’s exactly what showrunner Moira Walley-Beckett intended

Thebes is the burial place of seemingly countless Egyptian royals and noblemen.

Mummies and More Than 1,000 Statues Found in Egyptian Tomb

The treasure was buried near Luxor

This gold and red miter greeted builders when they discovered an unexpected tomb in St. Mary-at-Lambeth.

Builders Find Remains of Five Archbishops of Canterbury

Turns out the vault in which they were buried wasn't destroyed by flood after all

Does this crack spell bad news for the Petermann Glacier?

NASA Spots New Crack in Greenland Glacier

Is the Petermann Glacier getting ready to rupture again?

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