The Guild of Scientific Troubadours

Nature unveils the unseen world of songbirds:

They injected one tracer into the part of the forebrain known to be the only active area when birds orient themselves (known as Cluster N), and

PhysOrg reports on a Northwestern University research team that’s found evidence linking Alzheimer’s disease to brain insulin:

They have shown that a toxic protein found

Science Daily reports on a veterinarian, Janice A. Dye, who might have found the cause of feline hyperthyroidism, an epidemic that’s been afflicting cats for nearly three decades.… Read the rest “Common flame redardant could be killing cats.”

A study from the University of Guelph finds that men often feel “coerced” into sex because we’re subject to the myth of the massive libido. In other words, social constructions… Read the rest “I don’t *feel* sexy….”

Physical anthropologists with Washington University of St. Louis have looked over some pretty old bones from a site near Tblisis and found humans were in Europe a lot earlier than we thought…… Read the rest “The Cradle of Man… in the Republic of Georgia?”

Antioxidants are good for you! They help prevent cell damage and heart disease! Except when they don’t, as researchers at the University of Utah discovered. They were studying a … Read the rest “Antioxidants: And now the bad news.”

New Scientist reports on a new way to propel nanomachines – using wiggly little germs as propulsion (or models for propulsion) because they’re kinky:

The motion of Spiroplasma

Snakes, as we know too well, come in two varieties: the venomous kind, which stick you full of poison, and the constricting kind, which smother you to death. (Both kinds, naturally, are quite… Read the rest “Suffocated by bees!”

Science Daily reports on astronomers making an atypically cute discovery. The Hubble Space Telescope has isolated nine new galaxies – the smallest galaxies ever observed:

…[T]he

Because they’re going there, reports Nature. Not in person (not right away, anyway), but with the launch of a new satellite system:

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

That’s what those feisty young upstarts New Scientist are trying to tell us – that replacing sugar with honey will keep us bright, sharp and relaxed into our golden years:

Honey-fed