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.
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May Day Becomes the First Mass Strike Test of the Trump Second Term
Five hundred organizations and seven hundred and fifty cities call No Work, No School, No Shopping on the day the eurozone prints three percent inflation with energy up nearly eleven.
Pope Leo Marks Saint Joseph the Worker With a Capital Versus Person Catechesis
On the day a global mass-strike calls itself Workers Over Billionaires, the Pope's morning homily put it in Latin — work serves the person, not capital, market, or profit.
The Trump Administration Pays Nearly Two Billion Dollars to Kill Offshore Wind Projects Already Under Construction
The Interior Department wrote nearly two billion dollars in checks to three developers to walk away from leases — and all three pledged the money to LNG, oil, and gas instead.
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.
The Met Gala Returns Monday With Beyoncé, Kidman, Williams and a Costume-Art Theme
Co-chairs Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams and Anna Wintour open the Costume Institute's Costume Art exhibition Monday at 6 p.m.; the dress code is Fashion Is Art.
David Allan Coe Dies at 86 on the Day His Quitting Anthem Circulates as Labor Music
The outlaw who wrote 'Take This Job and Shove It' died Wednesday in ICU; his most-covered song lands on a May Day rally tape the day after.
Pineland Road Fire Reaches 38 Percent Containment as the 40,000-Acre Threshold Holds
The South Georgia fire is now 38% contained at roughly 32,500 acres; the Forestry Commission expects full control by late May, and the 40,000-acre threshold the paper has been watching holds.
Reclamation 6E Day Three Without an Upper-Basin Lawsuit
Three days after Reclamation's first-ever Section 6E invocation cut Lake Powell's annual release to 6.0 maf, no upper-basin or lower-basin filing has surfaced — the precedent stands.
Right Whale Gear Pinned to Snow Crab Area 12 as Canada Renews the Whalesafe Pilot
DFO confirmed the gear that killed Eg #5217 came from Snow Crab Fishing Area 12 in 2020; the same week Canada renewed the voluntary shallow-water whalesafe pilot for three years.
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.
NICE Alzheimer's Vote Comes Back on June 10 With Cochrane on the Table
NICE closed its lecanemab and donanemab consultation Tuesday with the new Cochrane review filed; the appraisal committee meets June 10 and the math is now post-threshold-revision.
Brenner's First MMWR Friday and the Hep-B Birth-Dose Queue
Friday is the first MMWR cycle under Sara Brenner's principal-deputy line, and the queue holds the operational hep-B birth-dose guidance the agency walked back in December.
GLP-1 Class Effects Now Include Type 1 Diabetes Cardiometabolic Benefits
A Hopkins study of 175,000 type 1 diabetes patients put GLP-1s' five-year cardiovascular and kidney-disease risk reductions at 15 and 19 percent.
Sara Brenner's CDC Profile on Her First MMWR Friday
An FDA radiologist who advocated faster device review now sits at the editorial gate of the agency that publishes American disease data.
Pope Leos Dignity-of-Work Quotes Circulate Across Catholic Press on May Day
Nine Pope Leo passages on labor land in Catholic outlets on the same Friday his sister catechesis lands at the Vatican.
Helene Hangover Fuel Load Is Now Named in Fire Modeling
Down timber from Helene 2024 has stopped being a footnote; fire models now name it as the Pineland Road blaze's signature fuel.
The Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Lab Shuts as the Southeast Needs Its Smoke Forecasts
Seattle's smoke-forecast lab is on the 57-lab Forest Service closure list as Georgia's Pineland Road haze drifts north — geographic mismatch is the artifact.