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‘Flying Saucer’, a planet-forming disk surrounding a young star, contains extremely cold planetary building blocks, so cold that these do not jive with current planetary formation models.

Astronomers have found that the star, named 2MASS J16281370-2431391, is some 400 light-years away from Earth in the Rho Ophiuchi star formation region. Sporting a protoplanetary disk edge-on to us, the star comprises a glowing halo with a dark band at the centre. The dark band is the one that has perplexed astronomers.

Charged with securities fraud and facing congressional inquiry, ex drug executive Martin Shkreli has replaced his legal team with Benjamin Brafman, the lawyer who was behind getting Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs set free of gun and bribery charges in 2001.

The move has been taken after Shkreli was lately called ‘the most hated man in America’ for the sky-high rates he set on life-saving medications, has boarded a risky strategy for repairing his image without any assistance of professional communications advisers.

On Tuesday, the Obama administration disclosed a $1.1 billion proposal to fight the heroin crisis, which includes $970 million dedicated to substance abuse treatment.

According to the White House, Maine may benefit more than other states because the funding formula would be weighted in a way, favoring rural states and the ones more affected by the crisis.

Though the proposal has to be approved by the Republican-controlled Congress, the funding may help hundreds or even thousands of Mainers, who presently have been facing difficulty in finding treatment. At the national level, the program may provide funding over two years for the treatment of nearly 150,000 to 200,000 addicts.

On Tuesday, the American Red Cross asked prospective donors who have travelled to Zika outbreak zones to wait for more than 28 days prior to donating blood, however, mentioned that the risk of the virus transmission through blood donations is ‘extremely’ low in the continental United States.

In a statement, the Red Cross said that the ‘self-deferral’ notice for blood donors is applicable on the ones who have travelled to Mexico, the Caribbean, or Central or South America in the previous four weeks.

The Washington-based nonprofit disaster relief agency also asked that donors who donate blood and then contract symptoms consistent with Zika in the time span of two weeks of donating must consult the Red Cross so that the product can be quarantined.

Researchers have reported that if you sit for long hours, then it might boost your chances of suffering from type 2 diabetes, no matter you exercise or not.

The study authors said that every additional hour in a sedentary position, whether you are in sitting in front of idiot box, computer or lounging in the recliner, apparently raises your odds of type-2 diabetes by 22%.

Lead researcher Julianne van der Berg, from Maastricht University in the Netherlands mentioned that they have discovered that people suffering from diabetes spend more time sitting as compared those without diabetes, roughly 26 minutes more per day.

The report of first known case of Zika virus transmission in the United States came from Texas on Tuesday. Local health officials, who reported the case, said that it was probably contracted via sex, and not a mosquito bite. The report has come a day after the World Health Organization announced an international public health emergency.

In the Americas, the virus associated with severe birth defects in thousands of babies in Brazil, has been spread at a very fast pace. On Tuesday, the WHO officials expressed concern that it may hit Africa and Asia also.

It was though that the virus spreads by the bite of mosquitoes of the Aedes genus, so sexual contact called a mode of transmission would be a likely alarming development.