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On Tuesday, the Hawaii Supreme Court temporarily suspended a permit, allowing the building of a huge telescope on a mountain that is considered as sacred by many Native Hawaiians.

The court has granted the request of the telescope opponents for an emergency stay of the success of the permit until December 2, or until court gives any other order.

The court has issued the ruling because of the gathering of protesters on Mauna Kea with the hope to block telescope work from resuming. Since April, work has been stuck at a point amid protests.

After hearing the ruling, Kealoha Pisciotta, a longtime opponent of telescope and one of the plaintiffs challenging the permit repeated many times, ‘Mahalo ke akua’, Thank God’.

On Tuesday, an organizer said that amid worries over security post attacks that killed 129 people, France is going to take a decision in coming couple of days on whether or not to allow climate change activists to stage a rally in Paris on the eve of a UN summit on November 29.

Despite the attacks that have been claimed by Islamic State militants, campaigners went to meet French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who will be the host of the November 30-Decemebr 11 summit, for putting their case for the march in central Paris.

Speaking to Reuters, Eros Sana, an organizer at the environmental activist group 350.org, said the government ‘will respond to them on Wednesday evening or Thursday regarding the security and logistics’.

A new research by University of Warwick researcher has suggested that the most Earth-like planet may have been made unfit to live in by huge quantities of radiation. The planet Kepler-438b’s atmosphere is thought to have been stripped away due to the emission of radiation from a superflaring Red Dwarf star, Kepler-438.

The superflares occur regularly in every few hundred days, and are roughly 10 times more powerful as compared to the ones ever recorded on the Sun and have energy equal to 100 billion megatons of TNT.

Although superflares themselves won’t have a major impact on the atmosphere of Kepler-438b, a hazardous phenomenon linked to powerful flares, called a coronal mass ejection (CME), can strip away any atmosphere, leaving it uninhabitable.

According to the Boston Herald, New England Patriots offensive tackle Nate Solder, while speaking at a charity event on Monday night disclosed that Hudson, his infant son, has a Wilms tumor in his kidneys.

Late Monday night, Solder tweeted a picture of his son. A five-year NFL veteran presently on season-ending injured reserve with a biceps injury, Solder revealed the news at a benefit for the Joe Andruzzi Foundation. Andruzzi is an ex Patriots offensive lineman and survivor of cancer.

As per the Herald, Solder's son took birth in July and so far he has already undergone chemotherapy treatments at Boston Children's Hospital.

There is happy news for coffee lovers as a latest study has suggested that intake of coffee, whether regular or decaf, may cut the risk of death. For the study, researchers used data from surveys of the US adults wherein they were asked how much coffee they consumed, and also other foods and drinks.

After noting down the information, they then looked at their rates of death and disease in the time span of the following 2 decades. It was a huge study that included over 200,000 women and 50,000 men.

Last Friday, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a new set of regulations for both produced and imported foods, with an aim to combat food-borne illnesses.

Now the FDA with this new rule on hand can reinforce food safety by making ‘science-based standards’ for farm produce, including growing, harvesting, packing and holding and giving accountability to importers to make sure that the foods delivered by them meet the US food safety guidelines.

Michael R. Taylor, the agency's deputy commissioner for food and veterinary medicine, said that this was the first time ever that the food importers have come directly under FDA regulation.