Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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How ‘rare’ is Earth?
 PLANET Earth. Is it unique as a life-bearing planet or are there other similar rocky, wet and hospitable to life worlds out there in the universe?...
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Make your Windows shine
 OVER time, Windows XP or any version of Windows for that matter, becomes sluggish, unresponsive and loses stability. Frequent restarts, frozen screens and cryptic program errors are just about the most...
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Webwatch
 Interested in star gazing? Here is a nice site to help you start. There are a lot of good astronomy websites out there, but many just show what can be done, not how. Among the site's features is an astronomy tutorial, a section...
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Terms for computer junkies
PUMP up your computer-related vocabulary! Load your brains with these frequenty used i-terms. Modem: MOdulator-DEModulator, a device that allows a computer or terminal to transmit data over a standard telephone line...
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Scientists milk snakes for medical knowledge
 A SMALL girl in a Sri Lankan village is bitten by a venomous snake. Similar to many children and adults in rural areas, she is at daily risk of a...
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Inclusion in the information society
 TEN year ago, the first international World Wide Web Conference was held in Geneva. Speaking in the conference Tim Berners Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, talked about ways...
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The sci-tech year round the globe
 THE year 2003 was an eventful year not only in geo-politcial terms but also in terms of scientific and technological advances, and the events such as the SARS outbreak. Here, our...
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Disseminating information through research journals
 BACK in 1947, Pakistan faced a setback because of emigration of highly educated professionals of the minority community to India. The new country’s meagre resources were stretched beyond limit coping with...
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AMD launches low-cost Athlon 64
ADVANCED Micro Devices has finally released a low-cost version of its flagship Athlon 64 processor. Although the chip costs less than the next-generation Athlon 64 that AMD released in September, industry...
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Hope for new source of stem cells
 US scientists have found a way to turn adult cells back into immature cells with the potential to become many different types of tissue. The breakthrough by Scripps Research Institute in...
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China-EU space project launched
 CHINA and the European Union have launched a space mission to study the Earth’s magnetic fields....
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Comstech vows to boost efforts to develop S&T
THE Comstech General Assembly on Sunday concluded with the resolve to enhance efforts to increase support for scientific and technological development, says an official press release....
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Starting your new year with better resolutions
 THERE’S nothing like starting off a new year with a few good intentions regarding your PC. Here’s a small selection of goodies and set of “dos and donts” that you will...
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Byteback
 Hotmail: yet another facelift? In the first week of December with my semester exams starting the next day, I convinced myself to take a five-minute break from my UML book to write a mail to my brother. By the end of the five minutes...
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ITeaser
THINK your IT knowledge is really good? Rack your brain with this I-Teaser and find out for sure:...
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Cool gadgets
 MEASURING 77x12.5x125mm and weighing 137g, Toshiba’s thin and light PDA “Genio e400” is equipped with Intel’s 300MHz-PXA263 processor and 3.5-inch transreflective LCD display. Toshiba’s new PDA is...
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