Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
This page is updated every Saturday.
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Weaving the knowledge web for development sector of Pakistan
 We all come across a lot of useful informative material in our daily lives, some of which we read; the rest, more often than not, piles up in our to-read-later tray....
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BYTEBACK
 When one has a magazine like ScienceDotcom, there is hope for us all in Pakistan. You may not be aware of if but let me mention here two important things that happened with the publication of Dr Seth Shostak’s interview...
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Blood Rayne: slicing and dicing at its best?
 Vampires hold a very important place in my heart. They were the hallmark of the western culture as the kind of villain one would root for. A breed of bad guys...
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WEBWATCH
 A very useful NASA site, for students of all ages, which provide information regarding land, water, air, and natural hazards with lots of learning games...
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Ban or bin the polythene bag?
Polythene bag has been making a lot of news in the recent past in our country for all the wrong reasons. Various NGOs have been seeking ban on the use...
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Computer science at university level
 NOT many people really know what computer science is all about. It is a common misconception that computer sciences and information technology are one in the same. And this misconception usually...
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How cellular systems work for you?
 When the first cellular mobile system, NMT was developed in the late 70s, many people thought that the invention was unrealistic, uneconomical, and impractical. Today cellular technology is one of the...
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A new window in search of gravitational waves
 THERE are two unusual L-shaped buildings, one in the forests of Louisiana and the other in the plains of Washington state. The skinny arm of each building stretch four kilometres...
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TECH UPDATE
Microsoft is upgrading and renaming its Pocket PC operating system, and a handful of PDA vendors are ready with new models that take advantage of the software’s enhanced security and multimedia functions....
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SCIENCE UPDATE
Scientists have found an organelle, an enclosed free-floating specialized structure, inside a primitive cell for the first time. Prokaryotic cells are relatively simple cells, without nuclei, such as bacteria....
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NEWSBITS
Intel on June 24 introduced a new version of the Pentium 4 processor with Hyper-Threading (HT) technology at 3.2GHz. Pentium 4 processor-based PCs and Xeon-based servers with HT technology are now available across a range of mainstream and performance system price points....
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NATIONAL SCI-TECH SCENE
The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has approved a scheme for establishing an instrumentation centre at NED University of Engineering & Technology Karachi....
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Is the Qur’an in conciliation with 20th century cosmology?
 Modern science has crossed all thelimits of the human imagination. Ranging from the expansion of the universe to the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR), the 20th century has witnessed marvels too...
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COOL GADGETS
 A Sony employee displays the water-proof digital camera “Cybershot DSC-U60”, equipped with a 2.11 mega-pixel CCD on its image sensor and enabling the user to go to about 1.5m depth. Sony will put it on the market 27 June with an estimated price of $250 USD...
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