The Cloverdale Mine never made anyone rich. But it meant a lot to Bill Humble, who spent years living at the abandoned mine -building and repairing, surprising hikers, getting away from society. His grandson is trying to preserve the site and that story. www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a...

Ever wonder what happened to that $100 million interstellar spaceship program? Me too. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

More than ever, I find, editors want a story fully nailed down in the pitch stage ("What will happen? What will you uncover?" "I don't know, man, that's what you're supposed to pay me to find out?"). But it's easy to give them what they want if you make it up. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

Alec is a great guy and a great journalist. He recently went for a backpacking trip on a glacier in Norway and is now missing. Please help spread the word in case someone knows something that can help searchers. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Earlier this year, I wrote about a controversial Science paper from 15 years ago. It was about a microbe that could reportedly use arsenic in its biology. After I contacted Science for that story, its editors began to discuss retracting the paper. Today, they did. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/s...

This is where I live, and where I live we respect the sanctity of hot dogs. Last year, this also happened with a shipment of shredded cheese, which was treated with the same level of dignity.

Very happy to release my episode on government labs, nuclear weapons safety, nonproliferation, UFOs and more with @sarahscoles.bsky.social - had a blast (in the non-literal sense, luckily) and highly recommend. open.spotify.com/episode/6ofy...

Last year, I went on my honeymoon to Norway. Up north, where we'd gone to see the Northern Lights, we kept running into satellite ground station antennas. Anyway, turns out you can get some work out of your honeymoon if you want. undark.org/2025/03/19/g...

Do you remember the #arseniclife controversy from the long-ago internet? Here's my retrospective about what went on behind the scenes and within the science community back then, what happened to the scientist at the center of it all, and what's going on now. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/s...

TGIF

I wrote this story about the lunar space station that may or may not survive the changes that often come for NASA with new presidential administrations. Which, of course, is part of the story. undark.org/2025/01/22/g...

"In the future, humans may not be the only arbiters of who lives and dies, with decisions instead in the hands of algorithms." @sarahscoles.bsky.social @undark.org #longreads

Hi, I migrated over. Do we introduce? I'm Sarah, I write articles and sometimes books, usually about science and national security, and then when I'm done I run around in the wilderness, usually with wild dogs. Happy holidays.