August 7, 2004 Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World. This page is updated every Saturday. For current issue Click here Beautiful ecosystem under stress Coral-reef ecosystems benefit humans commercially, recreationally, aesthetically and environmentally and are among of the most diverse, complex, and beautiful ecosystems on earth. The abundant biological diversity of the coral reef ecosystem,... BYTEBACK Alternate web browser Lately I have been confronting a lot of problems with Internet Explorer. As a result I had to format and reinstal my OS thrice, but still I feel it is not performing well.... After the crash... It is safe to say that anyone who works with computers has heard about computer crash even if has not experienced one personally. Simply put computers crash is when the machines... WEBWATCH Styleborg brings us the most appealing concept in wearable computing. Ever thought of Electronic fabrics? Jewelled eyeball implants? Hats with LCD screens on poles above one’s head?... PC blade: cutting-edge technology Desktop computers were originally designed to stand-alone use and later retrofitted to function in a network enterprise. Limitations like manageability, reliability and security, desire to improve ergonomics and to reduce the... An insight into the future of PC gaming in Pakistan Recently PC gamers came across a disheartening announcement posted on some websites which are considered to be authorities on PC gaming. It won’t be surprising to find if this news affects... Pumping fresh air into the ‘lungs of Karachi city’ According to a research presented at the symposium organised by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and the International Council for Science’s Committee on... Capacity building in biosafety of GM crops Pakistan is a basically an agriculture country; this sector is contributing round about 25 percent to GDP, employing 50% of labor force, and earning a large share of foreign exchange earnings.... Servers tune in to 64bits Computer makers unveil the first servers to carry Intel’s bulked-up Xeons. Server specialists IBM and Dell are among the manufacturers introducing products based on Intel’s X86 platform, providing an additional boost... SCIENCE UPDATE Researchers have for the first time made a prion in the laboratory and used it to demonstrate that the misfolded proteins are indeed the sole cause of Mad Cow disease, the US and German scientists have reported.... NEWSBITS Francis Crick, who helped discover the double helix shape of DNA along with James Watson, has died aged 88.... Science subjects’ curricula revised Punjab Governor Khalid Maqbool has approved the curricula of microbiology and molecular genetics, mycology and plant pathology, botany and zoology.... A world without wires? With a few exceptions, the wires dangling from today’s electronics may become, in our times, an endangered species. A number of emerging “wireless” technologies can do almost anything today’s twisted copper... COOL GADGETS Matsushita’s new notebook computer “Let’s note Light CF-W2,” enables users to connect to internet through the public wireless LAN or mobile communication network without complicated communication set-up...

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