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Science and the shutdown: 5 things to watch as US impasse drags on

A second wave of closures looms as the government funding fight barrels towards a record-breaking fourth week.
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Thousands of US scientists are heading into their fourth week of enforced leave, the result of a prolonged government shutdown that began on 22 December.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-00082-4

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  • Correction 11 January 2019: This story originally said that Belinda Wilkes expected NASA to seek permission to restart payments to the Smithsonian Institution that would allow the Chandra X-ray Observatory to keep running during the shutdown. In fact, Wilkes expects NASA to seek approval for the Smithsonian to use its own emergency funds to operate Chandra until the government re-opens.

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