MedWorm.com provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest items from the 'TIME: Eye on Science' source. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:39:57 +0100 http://time-blog.com/eye_on_science/2008/01/so_where_were_we.html?xid=rss-eyeonscience When last we met...or...whatever we do here, I said you'd have to register in order to make comments from now on. That moment is evidently here, or so my blogmasters tell me. It's to prevent spam bots from flooding the... (Source: TIME: Eye on Science) TIME: Eye on Science blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2087061 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:47:24 +0100 2087061 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/time/EyeOnScience/~3/Pej3SpreARI/so_where_were_we.html When last we met...or...whatever we do here, I said you'd have to register in order to make comments from now on. That moment is evidently here, or so my blogmasters tell me. It's to prevent spam bots from flooding the... (Source: TIME: Eye on Science) TIME: Eye on Science blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2027325 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:47:24 +0100 2027325 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/EyeOnScience/~3/222039537/so_where_were_we.html When last we met...or...whatever we do here, I said you'd have to register in order to make comments from now on. That moment is evidently here, or so my blogmasters tell me. It's to prevent spam bots from flooding the... (Source: TIME: Eye on Science) TIME: Eye on Science blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1173348 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:47:24 +0100 1173348 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/EyeOnScience/~3/219400327/new_policy_on_comments.html From now on, everyone has to agree with me. OK, that's not the new policy, unless I want comments to drop to zero. The truth is that our beloved spam filter is being overwhelmed, so while lots of the stuff... (Source: TIME: Eye on Science) TIME: Eye on Science blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1162591 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:46:53 +0100 1162591 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/EyeOnScience/~3/215588207/dark_matter_made_visible_sort.html Magenta-colored areas represent the presence of invisible dark matter that surrounds clusters of galaxies/NASA, ESA, C. Heymans (University of British Columbia, Vancouver), M. Gray (University of Nottingham, U.K.), M. Barden (Innsbruck), the STAGES collaboration, C. Wolf (Oxford University, U.K.), K.... (Source: TIME: Eye on Science) TIME: Eye on Science blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1146543 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:48:07 +0100 1146543 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/EyeOnScience/~3/215042870/more_astronomy_porn.html These giant, glowing clouds of gas and dust are the remnants of two different exploding stars. /Gemini Observatory / Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS-South) Image No, the headline doesn't't refer to astronomers behaving badly—it's just that the pictures we're getting from deep... (Source: TIME: Eye on Science) TIME: Eye on Science blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1146544 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:08:58 +0100 1146544 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/EyeOnScience/~3/214515378/double_cosmic_ring_of_firewith_1.html An embedded pair of "Einstein Rings"—in essence, a cosmic optical illusion./NASA, ESA, and R. Gavazzi and T. Treu (University of California, Santa Barbara), and the SLACS team The catch is that it doesn't really exist, even though you can see... (Source: TIME: Eye on Science) TIME: Eye on Science blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1142511 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:18:56 +0100 1142511 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/EyeOnScience/~3/201762219/cosmic_firehose.html Composite image of a cosmic jet spewing from one galaxy and caroming off another/X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/D.Evans et al.; Optical/UV: NASA/STScI; Radio: NSF/VLA/CfA/D.Evans et al., STFC/JBO/MERLIN Artist's rendering of the same thing, so you can see what's going on/NASA/CXC/M. Weiss The most... (Source: TIME: Eye on Science) TIME: Eye on Science blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1100211 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:00:39 +0100 1100211 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/EyeOnScience/~3/200467391/more_blogs_by_scientists.html Overlooked in my first post, added thanks to reader reminders Bad Astronomy Real Climate More to come, I'm sure... (Source: TIME: Eye on Science) TIME: Eye on Science blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1097718 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:27:48 +0100 1097718 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/EyeOnScience/~3/200289144/why_i_hate_scientistbloggers.html OK, I don't really hate them. But it used to be that science journalists stood between scientists and the public. The scientists did research, then we asked questions and translated their dry jargon and complicated ideas into scintillating prose. Sure,... (Source: TIME: Eye on Science) TIME: Eye on Science blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1097719 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:57:10 +0100 1097719 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/EyeOnScience/~3/199470993/carrying_a_baby_is_hard_enough.html Artist's rendering of a pregnant Australopithecene, circa 2 million years B.P. /John Gurche Paleoanthropologists agree that the change from walking on all fours to bipedalism was what started our distant ancestors on the evolutionary trail away from the apes... (Source: TIME: Eye on Science) TIME: Eye on Science blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1097720 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:03:59 +0100 1097720 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/EyeOnScience/~3/198615716/girls_rule.html Back in 2005, Harvard president Lawrence Summers made some less than enthusiastic remarks about women in science. Now he's ex-president, and while some blamed the political-correctness police for his downfall, last week's results in the Siemens Competition in Math, Science... (Source: TIME: Eye on Science) TIME: Eye on Science blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1097721 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:29:20 +0100 1097721 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/EyeOnScience/~3/198204312/lets_have_a_presidential_debat.html Last summer I blogged about a meeting of high-level journalists and scientists to address the question of why Americans are so uninterested in science—even though it has a huge impact on their lives. One idea was to try and get... (Source: TIME: Eye on Science) TIME: Eye on Science blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1097722 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:08:26 +0100 1097722 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/EyeOnScience/~3/192388931/the_addiction_wars.html I wrote a post a few weeks back on a paper that described a step forward in understanding the neurobiological basis of addiction. In it, I mentioned the fact that understanding the underlying biology could help lead to new medications... (Source: TIME: Eye on Science) TIME: Eye on Science blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1097723 Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:29:20 +0100 1097723 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/EyeOnScience/~3/184717179/another_insight_into_addiction.html A couple of months ago, I wrote this cover story on the new science of addiction, and one of the things I talked about was the key role of the neurotransmitter dopamine. Among other things, dopamine governs the brain's reward... (Source: TIME: Eye on Science) TIME: Eye on Science blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1097724 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:09:12 +0100 1097724 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/EyeOnScience/~3/174992432/black_holes_galore_1.html The circled galaxies all contain giant black holes. / NASA/JPL-Caltech/ Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique Theory says that most of the galaxies formed shortly after the Big Bang should have giant black holes lurking in their cores--but until now, astronomers... (Source: TIME: Eye on Science) TIME: Eye on Science blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1097725 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:36:54 +0100 1097725 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/EyeOnScience/~3/163887599/flash_sabertoothed_tiger_was_r.html When I was a kid, toy dinosaur sets usually came with a little toy saber-toothed tiger, formally known as Smilodon. It wasn't because the toymakers were Creationists who thought every animal that ever lived was on the Earth at one... (Source: TIME: Eye on Science) TIME: Eye on Science blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1097726 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:00:32 +0100 1097726 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/EyeOnScience/~3/159138498/new_information_on_hobbits.html Not Hobbits, really, but "hobbits," a race of diminutive humans whose bones were uncovered in a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2004. Their miniature stature was explained by a phenomenon known as "island dwarfing," in which large... (Source: TIME: Eye on Science) TIME: Eye on Science blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1097727 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:49:03 +0100 1097727 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/EyeOnScience/~3/153069560/why_honeybees_are_vanishing.html The mysterious phenomenon known as Bee Colony Collapse Disorder has been worrying scientists, beekeepers and growers for months now (I blogged on it last February). Without the domesticated bees that are trucked around the country to pollinate such crops as... (Source: TIME: Eye on Science) TIME: Eye on Science blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1097728 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:00:48 +0100 1097728 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/EyeOnScience/~3/142889094/comment_about_the_latest_evolu.html I asked commenter Zachary Petit, who isn't so sure about evolution but wants others to accept creationism, how he responds to people who think they've been abducted by aliens, or who think the moon landings were faked. He responds, in... (Source: TIME: Eye on Science) TIME: Eye on Science blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1097729 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:51:40 +0100 1097729 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/EyeOnScience/~3/142473665/astonishing_news_on_human_evol.html News reports are buzzing today with the announcement of two newly identified fossils, published in Nature, that purport to upend the conventional view of human evolution. "Fossils in Kenya Challenge Linear Evolution," shouts the New York Times, and others emphasize... (Source: TIME: Eye on Science) TIME: Eye on Science blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1097730 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:31:28 +0100 1097730 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/EyeOnScience/~3/140385508/a_reader_comments_on_scientifi.html Corey writes M.L., I think at this point it might be useful to point something out to you. There's nothing magical about scientists. I'm one...I should know. The only difference between myself and a non-scientist is that I took a... (Source: TIME: Eye on Science) TIME: Eye on Science blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1097731 Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:19:27 +0100 1097731 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/EyeOnScience/~3/138642299/scientific_truth.html In response to my post about the amazing new addiction theory Ben Bonsens writes: M.L. its usually not the eloquence of a thoughtful argument that proves a theory. Instead it is the repeatability by an outside second and third lab/study... (Source: TIME: Eye on Science) TIME: Eye on Science blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1097732 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:16:53 +0100 1097732