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January 13, 2006

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Wireless World: Sensors Detect Icy Bridges
UPI, Jan. 13-Sensors embedded on bridges are helping authorities tell when there is a problem with the infrastructure; wireless nodes on fault lines can help forecast the next earthquake; and other technology can help cell phones communicate without cell towers over a distance. (Refers to research by UCSD.) More

Radar System Taking Pulse of the Pacific
Kansas City Star, Jan. 12-Some of the most vexing problems affecting America's oceans can't be solved because so little is known about how they and their currents work. But now, in the largest effort of its kind in the world, California researchers, including the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, are attempting to find answers by assembling a network of radar stations along all 1,100 miles of the state's coastline from Mexico to Oregon. More

UCSD gets $180K NASA Grant
North County Times, Jan. 13-UCSD will receive a $180,000 grant from NASA to support space and space-exploration research efforts, the nation's space agency announced Thursday. More

Gas Prices Jump 15 Cents in Seven Days
North County Times, Jan. 11-Ouch! Gasoline prices jumped 15 cents in the past week, according to the latest survey for the North County Times by the Utility Consumers' Action Network. (Quote by Michael Noel, an assistant professor of economics at UCSD.) More