Archive

Every piece Sarie has published, newest first.

15 articles

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, imaged during assembly at NASA facilities.
Science

Roman Was Saved by Being Finished, Not by Being Popular

NASA's new survey telescope launched on August 30 after what coverage calls four cancellation attempts. The record shows three zero-dollar terminations and one very different squeeze - and explains why the last one failed.

· Sarie Editorial · 4 min read · 15 sources
A gloved hand holds a vial of blood during a medical procedure.
Science

The most important number in the microplastics heart study is not 84 percent

In the same European Heart Journal cohort that produced this summer's headlines, every patient who both smoked and lived with high air pollution had plastic particles in their blood - against 12.5 percent of those with neither. That gradient, printed in the press release, went almost entirely unreported.

· Sarie Editorial · 4 min read · 13 sources
Appalachian Power utility crew trucks in Worthington, Ohio.
Business

The Data-Center Power Panic Has a Control Group - and It's in Ohio

PJM's market monitor blames data centers for $29.4 billion in capacity charges. Meanwhile the utility with America's strictest data-center tariff just asked to lower residential rates. The decisive variable isn't demand. It's the contract.

· Sarie Editorial · 5 min read · 15 sources