Continuing resolutions harm US physics

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.