[In Brief] News at a glance
Thursday, February 9, 2017 - 15:01
in Mathematics & Economics
In science news around the world, the U.S. Department of Agriculture faces a lawsuit after pulling animal welfare records from its website, a study of liver transplantations revives concerns that China has in the past allowed the use of organs from executed prisoners for transplants, Venezuela faces a shortage of medicines including anti-HIV drugs, a Japanese space probe fails to deploy technology that could help collect space junk, and more. Also, an Iranian-born researcher employed at two European institutes now faces the death penalty in his home country for "espionage." And Massachusetts Institute of Technology students stage a revival of a musical that celebrates the school's campus prank culture, or hacking.