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This Smartphone Spoilage Sensor Knows if Your Meal Is Tainted

That taco you just ate may not have smelled suspect but if it harbored e coli you could be in for a few days of food poisoning. A new phone-based imaging device could one day spot the gut-busting bugs before they make you sick. The device, developed by researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School…

Health Andrew Tarantola Feb 23

Drinking Doubles Your Lifespan and Makes You Impervious to Stress*

*Restrictions may apply. Someone get me my whiskey-drinking cap, I’m gonna live forever! Wait, whaddya mean it only works for worms?!?! A recent study by a team at UCLA suggests that moderate alcohol consumption can drastically lengthen one’s life-span while simultaneously reducing the effects of environmental stresses—so long as one is a member of the…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jan 21

Love Is The Ultimate Painkiller

Don’t bother with morphine the next time you are in pain. All you need is a healthy dose of love to make yourself feel better in an instant. A group of 17 women lined up at UCLA to have their brains scanned while they received brief, stinging shocks. They endured this form of medical torture…

Tech News Kelly Jun 29

Saliva Test Can Tell if You Are Lying About Your Age

Just when I thought I could get away with saying I was 25 and holding, scientists from UCLA had to design a test that can accurately predict my age from trace amounts of saliva. Just great. This breakthrough extracts DNA from residual saliva and examines the methylation pattern. This pattern changes as you grow older…

Tech News Kelly Jun 22

UCLA Thinks Their Faculty Could Have Helped Expedite the Hunt for Osama bin Laden. They’re Wrong.

Those Angeleno academics over at UCLA (along with a few others) were smug enough to suggest on Twitter that some tracking algorithm to come from the halls of Westwood in 2009, could have sped up the hunt for Osama. According to Science Insider a group of UCLA geography professor submitted a paper in 2009, explaining…

Tech News Adrian Covert May 3

The Birthplace of the Internet

This is 3420 Boelter Hall in UCLA. Looks cool and decidedly 1970s, right? Long manes, gnarly mustaches and vintage technology cabinets. What were they doing in there? Turns out, this is where the Internet was born. Whoa, what? Yeah! The first Internet message was sent from a node of the ARPA network (a computer network…

Tech News Casey Chan Apr 13

Cloth Masks Trap Gases For Better Filtration

It’s not often a student actually gets to create their idea, let alone have the US Department of Defense sponsor it. But Cornell University student Jennifer Keane’s cloth mask could have major impact on the army; firefighters and countless other professions. Constructed using metal organic framework molecules (MOFs) of clustered crystalline compounds, the hood and…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Apr 13

Tour the Birthplace of the Internet (Obscura Day 2011)

Do you live in Los Angeles? Join me April 9th at UCLA for Obscura Day! I’ll be hosting an event with Brad Fidler and Leonard Kleinrock in the room where the first Internet message was sent in 1969! Reserve your tickets today! Come be one of the very first to rediscover the room where the…

Tech News Matt Novak Apr 6

World’s Fastest Camera Uses Lasers to Boost Images

Keisuke Goda‘s team at UCLA have built the fastest camera ever, which takes an upwards of a whopping 6.1 million pictures per second, at a shutter speed of 440 trillionths of a second. Possibly the most frustrating part of photography is the age-old trade off between light sensitivity and speed. Using a fast shutter speed…

Tech News Odelia Lee Apr 29

Modded Cell Phone Analyzes Blood to Detect HIV, Malaria, and More

Scientists at UCLA modded an ordinary phone into a portable blood analyzer that can detect diseases at a very low cost. The hack could save lives in poorer areas that can’t afford expensive equipment. Blood analysis usually requires either large and expensive equipment or a trained technician to manually examine the material. Both are out…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Dec 20

Researchers Build X-Ray Machine With Scotch Tape

More than 50 years ago, Russian scientists discovered that simple Scotch tape emits x-rays when peeled off glass. New research conducted by colleagues at UCLA has determined that the power that the tape generates is much higher than anyone could have imagined. In fact, they have constructed a machine that generates x-rays by peeling up…

Tech News Sean Fallon Oct 22

Smart Party Wireless DJ System Will Get Playlist Votes From Your Trousered MP3 Player

A new system devised by a pair of UCLA students could well bring democracy to music selection at parties. The two scientists have created a software-and-antennae combo that currently works on laptops, scanning people’s music collections, grabbing the most popular tunes from guests’ MP3 players and adding them to the night’s playlist. The next step…

Tech News Kit Eaton Jan 21

This Smartphone Spoilage Sensor Knows if Your Meal Is Tainted

Drinking Doubles Your Lifespan and Makes You Impervious to Stress*

Love Is The Ultimate Painkiller

Saliva Test Can Tell if You Are Lying About Your Age

UCLA Thinks Their Faculty Could Have Helped Expedite the Hunt for Osama bin Laden. They’re Wrong.

The Birthplace of the Internet

Cloth Masks Trap Gases For Better Filtration

Tour the Birthplace of the Internet (Obscura Day 2011)

World’s Fastest Camera Uses Lasers to Boost Images

Modded Cell Phone Analyzes Blood to Detect HIV, Malaria, and More

Researchers Build X-Ray Machine With Scotch Tape

Smart Party Wireless DJ System Will Get Playlist Votes From Your Trousered MP3 Player

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