Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Unravelling the secrets of ‘molecular machines’
 SEEMINGLY simple linear sequences of amino acids, proteins are actually even more than ‘Molecular Machines’. Being at the very basis of life, they mediate almost all the processes characteristic to living...
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Looking beyond IE
 IT’S the year 2004. While computer viruses, Trojan horses and worms devastate the world’s networks, security vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, the standard Web browser on Windows-based systems, continue to be...
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Webwatch
 YOU’LL feel welcome at Professor Stephen Hawking’s website. You find here everything you ever wanted to know about the great scientist . . . well, not quite, but close. If you wanted to know about the man who wrote...
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I-Terms
The Media Gateway Control Protocol, developed by Telcordia and Level 3 Communications, is one of a few proposed control and signal standards to compete with the older H.323 standard for...
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Beware of personal electronic gadgets
 PERSONAL electronic devices can have a pilfering side. It is not only viruses, worms and spyware. one has to be careful. Now, it may be necessary to keep a wary eye...
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Darwinism: dogma or dilemma
 CHARLES Darwin died peacefully of a heart attack in England more than a century ago. His great theory of evolution, the basis of all modern biology teaching, came to be accepted...
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Technical support demystified
 IN today’s world, where technology abounds, leveraging technical support is a profitable business in itself. Organizations that provide good support, with round-the-clock availability, tend to get more business than corporations that...
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Bacteria resistance: the challenges ahead
 THEY are so small that you cannot see them with the naked eye, yet Allah has equipped them with awesome power, these tiny organisms are the bacteria and viruses, also known...
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IBM recalls 553,000 laptops power units
 IBM said last week it will recall about 553,000 AC power adaptors worldwide for several models of its laptop computers because of potential fire and electrical shock hazards....
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Caffeine raises risk of kidney stones
 PEOPLE prone to kidney stones should limit their caffeine intake, new research suggests....
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Talent contest in chemistry held
 THE Chairman, Higher Education Commission, Prof Atta-ur-Rahman, last week inaugurated the first national chemistry contest at the HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi. As many as 50 talented students...
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Research on natural resources launched
THE Pakistan Forest Institute, Peshawar, in collaboration with the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), is conducting a research on natural resource management in Mansehra district....
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Genetic counseling
 JUST as harmless characteristic such as curly hairs can run in the families, in the same way, there can be other harmful conditions that can run from one generation into the...
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Byteback
 Extraterrestrial
I wish I could share Fatima Sajid’s optimism about existence of ET. Back in 1982, I read an article by Carl Sagan on transforming the conditions on Venus. Since the planet has a very high temperature and abundant carbondioxide and moisture, algae may...
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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
 SONY unveils the world’s first digital high-definition video (HDV) camcorder “HDR-FX1”, equipped with three 1.12 mega-pixel CCD on its image sensor enabling to record HDV format, 1080 scanning line video images on a new format video tape...
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