There’s no way you can pay attention to every piece of piece of juicy news that dangles from the media vine. There’s too much to consume. It’s not unlike the contents of Paris Hilton’s storage shed, which were recently auctioned off and displayed on the Internet; there are so many artifacts of bad decision making that it’s difficult to focus on just one item.

That’s what we’re here for. Consider us your news filter.

Here’s a sample of what you may have missed in January.

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A species called the cardinal fish on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef possesses an odor-sniffing homing ability that allows it to smell a path as much as 30 miles back to the patch of reef where it hatched.

In Case You Missed It: Meet Cardinal Fish

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Quick-growing plants such as weeds may adapt better to global warming conditions than slower-growing plants such as Redwood trees, a phenomenon that could lead to future changes in the Earth’s plant life.

In Case You Missed It: Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

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The first-ever triple quasar, a rare and awe-inspiring celestial phenomenon, has been located by the astronomers at the California Institute of Technology in the U.S.

In Case You Missed It: Heh, you said, “black hole.”

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Men who have only daughters have a higher risk of prostate cancer than men with at least one son, suggesting a chromosome defect, Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health researchers said.

In Case You Missed It: Daddy’s little girls.

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A group of areas in the brain called “the default network,” is the source for activity commonly called “mind wandering.”

In Case You Missed It: They call me The Wanderer.

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A previously unknown species of rodent has been found in the cloud forests of Peru. The species, named Isothrix barbarabrownae, is described in the current issue of Mastozoologia, the principal mammalogy journal of South America. The animal was discovered at an altitude of 6,200 feet in Peru’s biologically diverse Manu National Park and Biosphere Reserve.

In Case You Missed It: Those are not rat droppings. Those are sprinkles.

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Researchers have developed a way of analyzing the traces of scent that every person leaves behind. The findings could lead to forensic techniques that will be the modern equivalent of using scent-tracking dogs.

In Case You Missed It: Here comes Stinky Pete.

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A survey of tendencies among approximately 1,000 car owners age 18 and over showed that U.S. men and women demonstrated an equal interest in upgrading the quality of their tires and wheels, women who responded to the survey tended to spend less than men when doing so.

In Case You Missed It: Doing wheelies.

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A logjam of nerve messages in the frontal and prefrontal cortex areas of the brain causes a bottleneck that may explain why people find it hard to do two things at once.

In Case You Missed It: Sorry, can you repeat that?

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New survey research indicates slightly more than one in four Americans would likely not support a female candidate for president. The response was consistent among women as well as men.

In Case You Missed It: Can I change my answer?

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The therapeutic relaxing effect on the arteries provided by drinking a few cups of ordinary black tea is completely wiped out if milk is added to the drink.

In Case You Missed It: Don’t milk it.