Nature: Continuing resolutions (CRs), the stop-gap funding bills that keep the US government running in the absence of an annual budget, are damaging US physics. As Nature‘s Eugenie Samuel Reich reports, the Synchrotron Radiation Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Holifield RadioÂactive Ion Beam Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are among several facilities that face closure or staff reductions if NSF, NASA, and other federal agencies continue to be funded through CRs.
The finding that the Saturnian moon may host layers of icy slush instead of a global ocean could change how planetary scientists think about other icy moons as well.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
January 29, 2026 12:52 PM
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