Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Stem cell: an essential biotechnology tool
 TRADITIONAL biotechnology may be as old as human civilization but modern biotechnology is less than three decades old....
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Exploring the digital frontiers of tomorrow
 ACCORDING to the popular animated TV show Futurama, in the future, “people will live twice as long and computers will die twice as fast.” Rumours of the PC’s demise may seem...
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Webwatch
 This collection of Oak Ridge University provides more than 1,000 objects related to the scientific and commercial history of radioactivity and radiation. This repository of all things radioactive allows investigation into everything from...
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Terms for computer junkies
PUMP up your computer-related vocabulary! Load your brains with these frequenty used i-terms. Address space: The set of all legal addresses in memory for a given application. The address space represents the amount of memory available to a program...
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Remote way of dealing with a terrorist bomb
 IT IS a sad fact of contemporary life that much of the world has become a very dangerous place. Indeed, nowhere today is apparently safe from the recent upsurge in international...
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Gateways to the internet
 BROWSERS have come a long way since Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina from the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications wrote a programme and later launched Mosaic in early 1990s....
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The year of going wireless
 THE year 2003 was one to remember with advancements in wireless, companies upgrading their aging four to five year old PCs, high performance computing, and true convergence of computing and communications...
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Reaching out for the stars
 AFTER decades of watching Star Trek, mankind is actually spreading its wings to “boldly go where no man has gone before.” Latest state-of-the-art technology along with many new innovative and futuristic...
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New Year ushers in new worms
ANTIVIRUS experts are warning of a troublesome, Christmas-themed e-mail worm and a virus that spreads via MSN Messenger, the popular instant-messaging application....
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‘We’re on Mars’
 THE US spacecraft carrying a robotic explorer designed to search for signs of life on Mars arrived safely on Jan 3. A lander carrying the Spirit rover made what Nasa officials...
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40pc population suffers from environmental stress: report
MORE than 40 per cent population of Pakistan suffers from general environmental stress (GES) due mainly to demographic growth and lack of appropriate housing structures and sanitary facilities, says a study...
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Nasa’s ‘Spirit’ lands on Mars
 ON January 3, the United States’ spacecraft ‘Spirit’ travelling at a speed of 6000mph landed on the surface of the red planet for the first time since 1997. If the...
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Byteback
 Computers in the future In 1965, Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, stated a law according to which, “the computational power and storage capacity of computer gets double after every 18 months...
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Cool gadgets
 Next-generation DVD NEC Corporation offers a next generation HD DVD (High Definition and High Density DVD with 15 giga-byte of storage cpapacity on a single layer and 30GB on dual layers) disk and its compatible drive during a press preview in Tokyo....
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