Posted on 01/05/2026 12:26:50 PM PST by dennisw
She is a star of American science. A Stanford chair. A NASA collaborator. A role model for a generation of young researchers.
But a chilling congressional investigation has found that celebrated geologist Wendy Mao quietly helped advance China's nuclear and hypersonic weapons programs – while working inside the heart of America's taxpayer funded research system.
Mao, 49, is one of the most influential figures in materials science. She serves as Chair of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Stanford University, one of the most prestigious science posts in the country. Her pioneering work on how diamonds behave under extreme pressure has been used by NASA to design spacecraft materials for the harshest environments in space.
In elite scientific circles, Mao is royalty. Born in Washington, DC, and educated at MIT, she is the daughter of renowned geophysicist Ho-Kwang Mao, a towering figure in high-pressure physics.
Colleagues describe her as brilliant. A master of diamond-anvil experiments. A gifted mentor. A trailblazer for Asian American women in planetary science. Public records show Mao lives in a stunning $3.5million timber-frame home tucked among the redwoods of Los Altos, California, with her husband, Google engineer Benson Leung.
She also owns a second property worth around $2million in Carlsbad, further down the coast. For years, she embodied Silicon Valley success. Now, a 120-page House report has cast a long shadow over that image.
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America has been berry berry good to me!
So has China
Julius and Ethel long for company ...
Wendy Mao?
Didn’t see that coming, eh?
living the american dream like the somali
ruh roh raggy
How do you get beyond the paywall to read the entire article?
“America has been berry berry good to me!”
I think that would be “America has been belly belly good to me”
Perfectly acceptable since no one is truly human except the Han Chinese.
“Are they spying on us again, Yogi?”
“They always spy on us, Boo-Boo.”
A capitalist-communist traitor.
Phrases like that are always red flags.
She do you long time GI.
Make sure the leg irons are on right.
Ooof, a face for radio.
Titles come up in Russian - I saw the correct title flash by, but the page changed to Russian and dozens of pages with links to other stories. You need to supply a specific link.
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