Bill Gates makes 100 million investment to eliminate Alzheimer’s Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is to invest $50 million in the Dementia Discovery Fund, a venture capital fund that brings together industry and government to seek treatments for the brain-wasting disease. The investment, a personal one and not part of Gates’ philanthropic Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will be followed by another $50 million in start-up ventures working in Alzheimer’s […]

Earth’s the right place for love; I don’t know where’s it’s likely to go better…” – Robert Frost, “Birches”Earth may be the right place for love, as Robert Frost [Unlink] wrote, but if scientists looking to the skies are correct, there could be up to 100 million life-supporting planets in the Milky Way galaxy for earthly lovers of the future to visit on romantic getaways and high-tech honeymoons.In late May, […]