Erin Blakemore
Erin Blakemore is a journalist from Boulder, Colorado. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Time, Smithsonian.com, mental_floss, Popular Science and more.
Latest articles by Erin Blakemore
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Can greenhouse gases become an innovative new raw material?
feature Harmful pollutants could be harnessed to help us make everything from shoes to couch cushions
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How to innovate with an inkjet printer
feature Your home office could soon be a production facility for state-of-the-art electronics
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How scientists are saving whales by listening to the ocean
feature Move over, whale watchers. Melville has arrived.
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Is your doctor a woman? She's probably being paid less.
feature Medicine has a gender problem
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This scientist wants to build a teeny-tiny robot to zap diseases in your body
feature A breakthrough in nanotechnology could open new avenues for medical treatment
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This robot surgeon could revolutionize operations
feature A prototype already has the dexterity and skill to outperform human doctors
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This puck-sized robot wants to be your kids' next teacher
feature Engineers say it will help the next generation of students learn to code
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Next up for robots: Synthetic muscle
feature Human muscles inspire new super-stretchy, self-healing material
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How scientists are using pork chops to design a better pacemaker
feature New technology could improve wireless communications from implanted medical devices
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This innovative video game can sense your emotions and respond accordingly
feature If you're feeling stressed, playing only gets harder
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How trees inspired the renewable plastic of the future
feature This tough new material could revolutionize manufacturing
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Can Facebook bring internet access to the entire world?
feature The tech giant is trying — and it's using lasers and drones
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There's augmented reality in space now
feature It's a very high-tech lifeline to Earth
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