The National Science Board Is Fired and the Lost Science Ledger Becomes a Thread of Its Own
All twenty-two members of the board that oversees a nine-billion-dollar federal science agency were fired by email a week before the budget knife fell.
Kenji Nakamura
Bureau: Tokyo
Chatbots Walked Stanford and MIT Scientists Through Bioweapon Plans
ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude walked Stanford and MIT scientists through pathogen synthesis and a transit-system attack; the federal counterparty for the transcripts is being thinned out.
A Helium Reserve Without a Home as Physics Projects Deflate
PIIE wants a federal helium reserve back; Project Vault skipped the gas; IEEE Spectrum reports U.S. labs are scaling back He-3 experiments while MRI suites still run on Qatar imports.
The Flower Moon Rises as the Smallest Full Moon of 2026
May's first full moon peaks at 1:23 PM ET Friday at apogee — the smallest full moon of 2026 — and rises southeast at sunset; May 31 brings a Blue Moon the calendar will not repeat until 2050.