But get over the ick factor: Aurora Algae has the potential to produce a wide range of food, pharma and fuel products from giant ponds of algae.

FORBES: Names You Need To Know: Aurora Algae

If he did not believe that the bank would have control over Aurora, it is hard to see why he would sign such an agreement.

ECONOMIST: The Executive Life affair

The proposals are due April 1 of this year, and the Langley Research Center in partnership with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and with Lockheed Martin, with the Draper Lab and Aurora Flight Sciences, is proposing a robotic airplane to fly over the surface of Mars, about a mile above the surface.

NPR: Revisiting the Viking Missions to Mars

Baccheschi Berti and his wife, Aurora, preside over one of the more eccentric and thoroughgoing fairy-tale environments you will ever rent a night in.

FORBES: The Other Tuscany

Mr Holmes faces 142 charges over the killing of 12 people and wounding of 58 in the cinema in the town of Aurora.

BBC: Aurora shootings: James Holmes 'threatened professor'

The sun has spewed out numerous intense spikes of energy over the past week, including several that did hit Earth, producing geomagnetic storms and some of the best aurora displays in years.

CNN: Sun lets loose monumental flare

The bank made a cash offer for the junk-bond portfolio and arranged for a new insurance company, Aurora, to take over Executive Life's insurance contracts.

ECONOMIST: The Executive Life affair