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Bad weather forced the US space agency NASA to delay the private Cygnus cargo spacecraft’s return-to-flight mission. The spaceship was scheduled to launch on Thursday, but now the next opportunity will be on Friday.

The Orbital ATK built unmanned Cygnus cargo spacecraft will take off on Friday at 5:33 pm from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station of Florida, NASA officials announced. Previously, the liftoff was scuttled by bad weather conditions, they added.

It will be interesting to see if the space spacecraft takes off on Friday as current weather forecasts have predicted only 30% chances of favorable weather conditions. The space agency will telecast the launch attempt live.

Astronomers used Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer space telescopes to discover what is believed to be the faintest object ever in the universe. The remote object existed approximately 400 million years after the big bang has been named ‘Tayna’ by an international team of astronomers.

It is not the first time when NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer spotted an object in the distant early universe, but the newly found object is from a small class of newly forming galaxies. According to the astronomers, the fainted objects could be considered as early universe’s representatives. They may reveal several interesting things about first galaxies and their formation, the astronomers added.

A new study published in the journal Science revealed that most migrating birds are poorly protected on their migration routes around the planet. It suggested that migratory birds are at risk when they stop for rest, feed and breed during their marathon journeys.

The study looked at migration paths of 1,451 migratory birds and kind of protections given to them in different regions around the globe. Study researchers found that more than 90% of the migratory birds didn’t find protected areas during their migration voyage.

The researchers said the new findings are surprising. Countries around the world need to do more to protect these migratory birds, they said. The researchers are also calling for new reserves in every nation to protect the migrating bird species.

According to company documents and legal and corporate governance experts, the tone and wordings in various US companies vary widely when it comes to disclosure to investors about the risk climate change has on their business.

As per the guidelines issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2010, the companies need to address climate risks depending on laws, regulations, international treaties, the consequences of business trends or potential physical impacts of climate events.

Andrew Logan, director of oil and gas and insurance programs for Ceres, a nonprofit that works to address environmental concerns, said there is a wide gap between what companies know and what they are actually disclosing.

The Hawaii Department of Health (HDOH) has disclosed the dengue fever confirmed case tally at 122, which is a rise of five cases since yesterday. The Southern Taiwan has reported all the deaths due to the mosquito-borne disease, including Tainan, has reported 112 deaths, followed by 70 in Kaohsiung and two in Pingtung County.

Dengue is not endemic in Hawaii but at times is brought in along with infected travelers, which according to state health officials is the way through which the outbreak has started.

As per Hawaii health officials, since the 2011 outbreak on Oahu, it’s the first cluster of locally-acquired dengue fever the Big Island has faced.

Researchers are going to start testing Metformin, a medication used for the treatment of diabetes, as an anti-aging drug in a clinical trial in the coming year. When the medication is used to treat type 2 diabetes, the drug cuts the glucose produced in the liver, but according to researchers it could also slow down the aging process in individual cells by boosting the level of oxygen released into every cell.

The research has suggested that cutting the biological effects of aging is indicative of the probability of longer lifespans, staving off aging-related diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's and possibly would allow humans to live their lives till their 110s or 120s.