Risky Business?

A Chicago alderman says he doesn’t mind that a businessman plans to open a hot dog stand in his ward and hire former convicts to work there, but he does object to the stand’s crime-linked theme.
Alderman Fioretti said on Friday his Second Ward on the city’s West Side has major crime problems, so he [...]

 
An eyeglass from SBG Labs has a tiny projector in its frame.
EARBUDS can pipe audio directly from a portable player to the ear. But did you ever imagine that eyeglasses or contact lenses could deliver digital images directly from a smartphone to the retina?

 The researchers used five Nasa satellites to monitor the northern lights
The secrets of the Northern Lights, one of the world’s greatest natural spectacles, have been unlocked by scientists.

A giant asteroid hit the Earth around 65million years ago, but experts dispute the impact it had. 
Molten droplets from the ancient asteroid impact were found just below the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary – a geological layer of sediment linked with the extinction.
 

Contestants on Jeopardy 
This highly successful television quiz show is the latest challenge for artificial intelligence.

 
Not exactly what i thought an alien looked like
Visiting aliens may be the stuff of legend, but if a scientific team working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is right, we may be able to find extraterrestrial life even before it leaves its home planet—by looking for left- (or right-) handed light.

This photograph was taken in 1918, and shows two nurses treating a victim of the 1918 Flu Pandemic.
A pandemic is an epidemic of infectious disease that spreads through populations across a large region; for instance a continent, or even worldwide. (Pics)

 
 Could Climate Change Worsen Lyme Disease?
In a finding that suggests how global warming could impact infectious disease, scientists from Yale University, in collaboration with other institutions, have determined that climate impacts the severity of Lyme Disease by influencing the feeding patterns of deer ticks that carry and transmit it.

How The Brain Translates Memory Into Action
When we emerge from a supermarket laden down with bags and faced with a sea of vehicles, how do we remember where we’ve parked our car and translate the memory into the correct action to get back there?

Electronic Device Lets Diabetics Test Glucose Painlessly
A skin patch could one day provide a less-invasive alternative for diabetics who need to take regular samples of their own blood to keep glucose levels in check. The common method of drawing blood from fingertips and using glucose testing strips and metres can be painful, inconvenient and time-consuming.