<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : UCLA : ATOM 0.3</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><entry><title><![CDATA[Enjoy candy without the cavities thanks to a UCLA professor of dentistry]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/49557/1/" /><id>49557</id><summary><![CDATA[Enjoy candy without the cavities thanks to a UCLA professor of dentistry]]></summary><issued>2008-02-05T22:54:55+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-05T22:54:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[What Willy Wonka did for chocolate, UCLA microbiologist Wenyuan Shi is doing for lollipops. Shi and his lab team at the School of Dentistry have managed to make candy that's actually good for your teeth. The orange-flavored, sugar-free lollipop they devised is infused with a natural ingredient found in licorice that kills the primary bacterium causing tooth decay, Streptococcus mutans.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Spears Released from UCLA hospital]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/49640/1/" /><id>49640</id><summary><![CDATA[Spears Released from UCLA hospital]]></summary><issued>2008-02-06T16:51:35+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-06T16:51:35+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Pop singer Britney Spears was released from a psychiatric ward at the UCLA Medical Center today after nearly a week of treatment.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[UCLA and JPL Form Partnership]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/4419/1/" /><id>4419</id><summary><![CDATA[UCLA and JPL Form Partnership]]></summary><issued>2006-10-25T18:28:44+01:00</issued><modified>2006-10-25T18:28:44+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[UCLA and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have formed a research institute to better understand and predict regional environmental and climate change and support future space missions.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[UCLA Scientists Design New Super-Hard Material]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/17348/1/" /><id>17348</id><summary><![CDATA[UCLA Scientists Design New Super-Hard Material]]></summary><issued>2007-04-21T12:54:42+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-21T12:54:42+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[UCLA scientists are now reporting a promising new approach to designing super-hard materials, which are very difficult to scratch or crack.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[UCLA researchers show that culture influences brain cells]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/28631/1/" /><id>28631</id><summary><![CDATA[UCLA researchers show that culture influences brain cells]]></summary><issued>2007-07-24T00:43:08+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-24T00:43:08+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Brain's mirror neurons swayed by ethnicity and culture.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Math nerds, rejoice!]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/77970/1/" /><id>77970</id><summary><![CDATA[Math nerds, rejoice!]]></summary><issued>2008-09-28T10:24:35+01:00</issued><modified>2008-09-28T10:24:35+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[UCLA mathematicians have discovered the 46th known <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_prime" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mersenne prime number</a>!  She's a beaut at <i>13 million digits</i>, and it only took 75 computers to find it!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[UCLA-Dutch team uncovers Egypt's earliest agricultural settlement]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/51409/1/" /><id>51409</id><summary><![CDATA[UCLA-Dutch team uncovers Egypt's earliest agricultural settlement]]></summary><issued>2008-02-20T08:15:03+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-20T08:15:03+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Archaeologists from UCLA and the University of Groningen (RUG) in the Netherlands have found the earliest evidence ever discovered of an ancient Egyptian agricultural settlement, including farmed grains, remains of domesticated animals, pits for cooking and even floors for what appear to be dwellings.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Researchers Find Cell Protein That Nips HIV In The Bud]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/47248/1/" /><id>47248</id><summary><![CDATA[Researchers Find Cell Protein That Nips HIV In The Bud]]></summary><issued>2008-01-14T19:08:54+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-14T19:08:54+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[UCLA researchers have found that a key protein in the body's dendritic cells can stop the virus that causes AIDS from &quot;budding&quot; part of the virus' life cycle that is crucial to its ability to replicate and infect other cells.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[UCLA Scientists Find Longest Mersenne Prime Number - 12,978,189 Digits!]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/78267/1/" /><id>78267</id><summary><![CDATA[UCLA Scientists Find Longest Mersenne Prime Number - 12,978,189 Digits!]]></summary><issued>2008-09-30T10:43:29+01:00</issued><modified>2008-09-30T10:43:29+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The challenge of finding the largest prime number ever known seems like an impossible task, however, when you put mathematicians and 100,000 computers together, you get an amazing result, which could qualify for the $100,000 prize offered by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for the first individual or group who discovers a prime number with at least 10,000,000 decimal digits.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Triple amputee graduates from UCLA]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/21590/1/" /><id>21590</id><summary><![CDATA[Triple amputee graduates from UCLA]]></summary><issued>2007-05-27T13:09:19+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-27T13:09:19+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A woman who lost both legs and an arm as a child is poised to become a doctor for children.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[How memories are made, and recalled]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/76385/1/" /><id>76385</id><summary><![CDATA[How memories are made, and recalled]]></summary><issued>2008-09-16T09:34:35+01:00</issued><modified>2008-09-16T09:34:35+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[For the first time, scientists at UCLA and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have recorded individual brain cells in the act of calling up a memory, thus revealing where in the brain a specific memory is stored and how the brain is able to recreate it.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bruins picked to win second straight Pac-10 title]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/5051/1/" /><id>5051</id><summary><![CDATA[Bruins picked to win second straight Pac-10 title]]></summary><issued>2006-11-02T21:18:21+01:00</issued><modified>2006-11-02T21:18:21+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Bruins coach Ben Howland isn't sure that's a good thing...  &quot;I think you're going to see a really competitive league from top to bottom,&quot; said 72-year-old Lute Olson, beginning his 24th season as the coach at Arizona. &quot;The team with the obvious edge is UCLA.&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Researchers Unlock Key To Memory Storage In Brain]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/17419/1/" /><id>17419</id><summary><![CDATA[Researchers Unlock Key To Memory Storage In Brain]]></summary><issued>2007-04-22T06:26:06+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-22T06:26:06+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Scientists know little about how the brain assigns cells to participate in encoding and storing memories. Now a UCLA/University of Toronto team has discovered that a protein called CREB controls the odds of a neuron playing a role in memory formation.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Scerri vs Preacher (video taken down)]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/7334/1/" /><id>7334</id><summary><![CDATA[Scerri vs Preacher (video taken down)]]></summary><issued>2006-12-09T16:31:00+01:00</issued><modified>2006-12-09T16:31:00+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[UCLA Professor combats fundamentalist Christian preacher. Classic quote: &quot;Denies logic? When did I deny logic?... I teach logic, mother*ucker!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Day the Infant Internet Uttered its First Words]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/39941/1/" /><id>39941</id><summary><![CDATA[The Day the Infant Internet Uttered its First Words]]></summary><issued>2007-10-29T17:16:33+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-29T17:16:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[38 years ago today the first message was sent over the internet. Wow... and now look what it's become.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Ejaculation at the speed of light?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/10396/1/" /><id>10396</id><summary><![CDATA[Ejaculation at the speed of light?]]></summary><issued>2007-02-08T21:32:37+01:00</issued><modified>2007-02-08T21:32:37+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Ever wonder what happens if you are having <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://johnmm.bol.ucla.edu/sexualphysics/ejaculate.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">sex at the speed of light?</a> Perhaps you are interested in <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://johnmm.bol.ucla.edu/sexualphysics/wormhole.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Wormhole-assisted masturbation?</a> Maybe you or your lover has <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://johnmm.bol.ucla.edu/sexualphysics/verysmall.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">a penis so small you can't see it?</a><br/>To learn answers to these questions and others click above.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Backlash Hits JuicyCampus.com]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/50986/1/" /><id>50986</id><summary><![CDATA[Backlash Hits JuicyCampus.com]]></summary><issued>2008-02-17T21:00:08+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-17T21:00:08+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[JuicyCampus' endless threads of anonymous innuendo have been a popular Web destination on the seven college campuses where the site launched last fall, including Duke, UCLA and Loyola Marymount. It recently expanded to 50 more, and many of the postings show they've been viewed hundreds and even thousands of times.<br/><br/>But JuicyCampus has proved so poisonous there are signs of a backlash.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Study tracks sexual behavior of newly homeless youth]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/46349/1/" /><id>46349</id><summary><![CDATA[Study tracks sexual behavior of newly homeless youth]]></summary><issued>2008-01-08T02:51:53+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-08T02:51:53+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Newly homeless youth are likelier to engage in risky sexual behavior if they stay in non-family settings &#8212; such as friends' homes, abandoned buildings or the streets &#8212; because they lack supervision and social support, a new UCLA AIDS Institute study has found.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Jack McClellan arrested near UCLA child care facility; had a digital camera on him]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/31570/1/" /><id>31570</id><summary><![CDATA[Jack McClellan arrested near UCLA child care facility; had a digital camera on him]]></summary><issued>2007-08-14T16:59:21+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-14T16:59:21+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[This <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/crime/l/30177/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">asshat</a> was picked up today for violating his restraining order.  He was released (boo!) and given an appearance date in court.  Hopefully he will get a nice, soft, cushy judge...NOT!!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Stem Cell Researchers Create Heart And Blood Cells From Reprogrammed Skin Cells]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/60340/1/" /><id>60340</id><summary><![CDATA[Stem Cell Researchers Create Heart And Blood Cells From Reprogrammed Skin Cells]]></summary><issued>2008-05-01T22:32:09+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-01T22:32:09+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Stem cell researchers at UCLA were able to grow functioning cardiac cells using mouse skin cells that had been reprogrammed into cells with the same unlimited properties as embryonic stem cells.]]></content></entry></items></xml>