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"  Hate having to limit your carry-on liquids? Wish you could once again bring liquids of your choosing onto the plane? Well that day may soon come, and when it does you&amp;#039;ll have wine and the people that love it to thank. Scientists at UC Davis are in a race with those at Los Alamos National Laboratory to develop new scanner technology that would enable airport security to distinguish between harmful and neutral liquids. More from Delish: Airport Dining Gets Better \u2014 And Closer The idea sprang from technology originally developed ten years ago at UC Davis by a graduate student who took an interest in wine. The student took a small magnetic resonance device (think mini-MRI) and altered it so that it could examine the contents of wine bottles and determine whether or not the wine had gone bad. After terrorists were caught carrying liquid explosives on trans-Atlantic airliners, White House researchers contacted Matt Augustine, the lead researcher on the Davis project. They wanted to know whether or not the wine scanner could be adapted to detect flammable liquids. Augustine emptied two cases worth of Trader Joe&amp;#039;s Two Buck Chuck and filled the bottles with various substances. He put them into the wine scanner and attacked the bottles with radio waves in order to determine the contents of each bottle. It worked. More from Delish: Travel-Safe Snacks After that a proposal for the scanner was accepted by the Department of Homeland Security and Augustine and his team were granted $800,000. There was still one problem to address: Not everyone carries around their liquids in wine bottles. The machine has to be able to detect what is in a plastic bottle or an aluminum can. Researchers at UC Davis, Los Alamos and other research centers have entered into a friendly competition to solve the problem. They are hopeful that a prototype will be available by the end of the year and that the scanners will be in mass production within a few years. So break out the shampoo and stock up on soda. The end of the liquid ban in is sight! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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