Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Do you know enough about electromagnetic radiation?
 BEFORE the twentieth century, mankind was exposed only to a variety of naturally created electrical energy such as lightning, solar radiations, ground-induced electric emissions, and certain caves of specific geological structures....
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Prince of Persia: The sands of time
 MODERN gaming continues to span its wings, attracting people from all cultures and societies, pushing hard to reach its ultimate destiny, some thing the extreme game enthusiasts call Reality. When most...
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Webwatch
 This US National Library of Medicine website offers a peek into the bizarre world of anatomical imagery. It takes you back in time when crude illustrations reflected medieval iconography rather than anatomical accuracy. It...
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Terms for computer junkies
PUMP up your computer-related vocabulary! Load your brains with these frequenty used i-terms. Library: In programming, a library is a collection of precompiled routines that a program can use....
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Mars: once upon a green planet
 IT is no longer wishful thinking or science fiction to imagine the Red Planet as once being a world containing water. Though scientists did have clues to Mars once having liquid...
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The role of maths in physical sciences
 MATHEMATICS, as E. Wigner has defined, is “a fusion of skilfull operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.” The principal emphasis is on invention of concepts, which go...
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Will Palladium be a boon or bane?
 YOU got hold of your colleague’s digital camera and plugged it into USB port of your computer, hoping that it would let you to transfer the images. But the PC...
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Internet as a political tool
 THE internet has supplemented traditional media, particularly radio, television and print in variety of ways mainly because of its instantaneity and interactive nature. As opposed to other mass communication channels, the...
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Software to seek out chatroom paedophiles
INTERNET chatrooms are seen as areas where youngsters are at most risk of “grooming” — the term used to describe a paedophile building up a rapport with a victim. A British computer programmer has created sophisticated new software that detects paedophiles trying to contact children in internet chatrooms....
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‘Vast’ reserves of frozen water on Mars pole: study
 SPECTRAL images from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express Orbiter show there is plenty of icy water at the southern pole of Mars, French scientists have said....
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Islamabad water safe: NIH
THE National Institute of Health (NIH) has declared that the water being supplied to the residents of the capital is fit for human consumption....
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World Water Day: high level of impurity found in tap water
WHILE March 21 was being celebrated as the World Water Day, newspapers in Pakistan flashed reports that water supplied to homes in Karachi deviated from the World health Organization (WHO) parameters...
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Communication netiquettes
 JUST because email has become an everyday part of our life, specially in the offices, it doesn’t mean it’s something you don’t have to think carefully about when using it. Sending...
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Byteback
 Registry/script messages
Every time I click on my dial-up account, I get this error message: “Windows encountered an error in the system registry.” On restarting the system, it doesn’t show the created....
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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
 PANASONIC’S prototype cellular phone, “Winged Image Grabber”, can show holographic pictures to the user. It was demonstrated during a presentation at the world’s largest computer fair CeBIT in Hanover....
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