A Science run down here./p

• Bird’s brains reveal source of songs/a" Apparently humans have a similar structure in the brain. So this might shed some light on learning to talk./li

• “<a href="http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID= ”>Scientists overcome ‘fermentation barrier’/a" talks about a cheaper way to produce hydrogen. Fairly cool./li

• “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/25/science/25brain.html?position=”>Improved Scanning Technique Uses Brain as Portal to Thought/a" talks about some scientists figuring out what people were looking at, without the standard eye trackers, but with some sort of MRI./li

• “Fierce ants build ‘torture rack’/a” is not really a torture rack in any meaningful sense of the word. These ants just have a particularly gruesome hunting method./li

• “ Alzheimer’s gene therapy hailed/a” rather speaks for itself./li /ul

  All in all, some minimal progress with the brain, none of it any real concern that I see, a promising development in medicine, and some interest in biology./p