Science & Technology

Three innovative gadgets to ease your bike ride to campus

I was probably one of the few people to closely read the City of Davis 2010 Annual Water Quality Report. The front of the report presents a chart full of numbers, units and initials. Down the left side of the chart is a list of possible contaminants of drinking water – arsenic, chloroform and uranium made the list.

James Hildreth, immunologist and former professor at Tennessee’s Meharry Medical College, started his post as the new dean of the College of Biological Sciences this month. As a prominent AIDS researcher, Hildreth’s work focuses on how HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus, penetrates the cell and promotes infection.

Every time my phone lights up with a text I have to be careful not to actually open the text.

In a new UC Davis study looking at 1.6 million mammograms taken across 90 facilities, Joshua Fenton and his co-authors found that computer-aided detection (CAD) in mammography actually increases false-positive readings, without significantly increasing detection rates of invasive breast cancers.

A recent study has found that the declining pH of oceans, a phenomenon called ocean acidification, could result in diminishing numbers of mussels throughout the northeastern Pacific.

Popular TV shows or movies are sometimes difficult for me to watch. For example, the show “Heroes” sounded interesting at first, but I had to stop when halfway through the first episode a college professor repeated the “you only use 10 percent of your brain” myth.

Two people with sleep disorders sharing a bedroom can make for interesting nights, to say the least.

With the help of a UC Davis geologist, the landing site for Curiosity, the new Mars rover, will be Gale Crater – a giant basin that contains a 5 km high mountain. NASA officially declared this selection in a press conference at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum on July 22.

A recent international study claims that the dwindling numbers of several species of large predators, such as killer whales, lions, wolves, sharks and elephant-like megaherbivores, may be “humankind’s most pervasive influence on the natural world.”

This column is not about the end of the school year. This is not about my stress over graduation or my bittersweet thoughts regarding the end of my time at The California Aggie.

Looking to become healthier and fitter this summer? There are apps for that.