[In Brief] News at a glance
Thursday, January 26, 2017 - 14:31
in Astronomy & Space
In science news around the world, the advocacy group 500 Women Scientists adds its voice to the Women's March on Washington, Amsterdam will host Europe's first "body farm" to study the decomposition of corpses, the Netherlands is the latest country to vie to host the European Medicines Agency post-Brexit, the World Meteorological Association determines that 2016 was the hottest year on record, and more. Also, U.S. President Donald Trump asks National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins to stay on, at least temporarily. And the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's latest geostationary satellite, GOES-16, sends back its first high-resolution images of Earth.