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Scientists hoping to view objects 13 billion light years away are facing opposition from Hawaiian Native groups. These groups believe that the construction website of a new telescope is not on the expected lines.

On Friday, a Native Hawaiian leader referred to as on the state and the University of Hawaii to put a halt on the construction immediately after several dozens of protestors were arrested a day before.

It was reported that about 300 protesters gathered at the mountain Thursday, and police and state law enforcement arrested 20 folks who attempted to block a road major to the summit of Mauna Kea on Hawaii's Big Island.

The New Hampshire Department of Fish and Game announced that this year only 105 permits will be issued to hunters due to decline in moose population. It means that there will be only a few hunters in the state fields and forests tracking moose this fall. Last year, the department within the government of New Hampshire in the United States had given 124 permits.

The familiar pattern has been seen in Maine and Vermont. According to reports, this year, Vermont will issue 225 regular moose hunting permits. The state in the New England region of the northeastern United States has about
2,400 moose. On the other side, Maine, which has more than 60,000 moose, has decided to issue about 2,815 permits. The drop in permits is of 10% compare to last year.

Mattel Inc. is making all the possible efforts to bounce back from a sales slump. It has lately announced Chairman Christopher Sinclair as its permanent chief executive officer.

Since 1996, Sinclair has been Mattel board member. He is also serving as interim CEO of the company since the time Bryan Stockton was ousted in January. Earlier, Sinclair was working as a PepsiCo Inc. executive and CEO of Caribiner International Inc. and Quality Food Inc.

The world’s largest toymaker has been facing sluggish sales of Barbie and Fisher-Price, as children spend more time now playing electronic devices. Another major loss to the company is losing the license for Walt Disney Co.’s Frozen dolls to Hasbro Inc. in 2016.

Dylan Miller, a college senior, has built a hut for himself in the woods, after living for around a year in a sturdy-yet-rudimentary shelter. People may think that he had done so while looking forward to springtime.

But the truth is that the soon-to-be college graduate has spent the past 10 months of his senior year living off campus.

He really didn't mind eating, studying and sleeping in winter's chill, even during the times when his exclusive experiment was threatened by freezing temperatures.

Miller, a student at central Pennsylvania's Juniata College, said, “It's a lot like jumping into a cold lake, and after a minute you're used to it and you're swimming around happily. I just wore shorts all winter because my body was so well acclimated”.

A seriously ill man, who suffered a medical emergency at a remote Antarctic base over two weeks ago, reached an Australian hospital on Friday.

In a statement, the Australian Antarctic Division said that the patient was taken to a hospital in Hobart, Australia's mostly southerly city, following a journey of an icebreaker 4,800 kilometers (3,000 miles) through rough and ice-jammed seas from Australia's Davis Station on the coast of Princess Elizabeth Land.

According to the division's chief medical officer Jeff Ayton, the patient, through ambulance, was transferred from the icebreaker, Aurora Australis, to the Royal Hobart Hospital. He remained there in a serious but stable condition.

Modernization and the age of internet have provided access to boundless amounts of information. But a recent study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General stated that people using search engines like Google Inc. to search answers tend to live under illusion of being smarter than they actually are.

Researchers from Yale carried out a series of experiments and tested over 1,000 people to uncover how online interaction affects the way one think. They found that having internet access give people an overconfident view of their intelligence.

Researcher during the study divided the participants into two groups, and asked them some questions. One group was given the liberty to use internet to search answers and the other was not.