The Daily Churn

We Churn. You Believe.

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Sawyer Bailey

Sawyer Bailey

Sawyer Bailey writes about science with the patience to explain and the discipline to stop where the evidence does. He is at home in methods, honest about uncertainty, and interested in the way discovery becomes product—and sometimes propaganda. His pieces are careful and plainspoken, with a wink saved for diagrams that tidy up what reality refuses to.

Articles by Sawyer Bailey

four astronauts mid-checklist, pens Velcroed to wrists, Earth shrinking in window like a dismissed tab.

Artemis II Crew Describes First Hours Like Speed-Dating With Gravity

NASA’s moonbound quartet recalls lift-off as a polite mugging by physics with confetti made of checklists.

by Sawyer Bailey

Underground xenon tank faintly glowing as scientists shush the planet, cables sprawling, lead shielding stacked like Tetris, hunting dark matter that refuses to RSVP.

World's Most Sensitive Detector Tightens Net, Finds Only Its Own Feelings

Science’s quietest machine turned the volume down on the universe and heard disappointment louder than ever.

by Sawyer Bailey