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Pakistani finding, global impact
 During the spring of 2000, a Pakistani-French team of palaeontologists, led by Jean-Loup Welcomme, was sifting through five tons of sediments in the Bugti Hills of Balochistan, looking for fossils. During the operation, members of the team were extremely surprised when they chanced upon a handful of tiny teeth representing the fossil remains of a mysterious minute primate....
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Are fundamental constants truly constant?
 THERE are some 20 universal constants which are believed to be so finely tuned that life as we know it became possible in our universe because of them. Were these constants even slightly different, “the universe might never have amounted to more than a formless morass of matter and energy.”...
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Fossil-rich Bugti Hills do it again
 THE BUGTI HILLS of Balochistan — which have already given us Baluchitherium, the largest land mammal ever discovered, and Bugtilemur, the oldest fossilized lemur — have now turned the theory on...
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Games people play
 THE COMPUTER was invented to calculate formulas and to derive equations at high speed. However, as time passed and technology improved, the internet became a part of everyday life. People now...
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Bird flu waiting in the wings?
 LIKE THE viruses he chases for a living, Albert Osterhaus is continually on the move, and the demands on his time are constantly multiplying. Four weeks ago he was in China...
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Wired for life
 Having to survive without the internet when everyone seems to be living in cyberspace is a new kind of potential fear. It is very difficult to perceive life offline, especially for...
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Tips and Tricks: Not just for emails
MOST PEOPLE use MS Outlook for emails only and it is often compared to other mail packages, such as Eudora and Mozilla Thunderbird. However, it’s not about emails only. You can do much more with it. It’s a complete personal organization suite. Today, we are going to show you...
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Webwatch
 Maths resource: www.mathgoodies.com. Mathematics is one subject about which there are always two extreme views — either people love it or they hate it....
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Learn about biochips
 As THE terminology suggests, biochips or biological chips are more like microchips, the core component of computers. They are manufactured using silicon (a semi-conductor material)...
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A bitter harvest?
 It IS common knowledge that the crops which we frequently consume (for example, wheat, rice and maize) are a result of evolution. The Green Revolution (GR) resulted in the production of...
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SCIENCE UPDATE: Duplicate universe, trapped in a computer
SCIENTISTS have recreated a vast segment of the universe inside a computer and written a brief history of time, black holes and galaxy formation. The Millennium Simulation — the biggest exercise of its kind — required 25 million megabytes of memory....
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NATIONAL SCENE: Hike in allocation for IT and telecommunications
THE GOVERNMENT has unveiled a Rs3.3 billion development budget for information technology and telecommunication division for 2005-06, showing a 35.6 per cent increase over the outgoing year’s allocation of Rs2.4 billion....
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Orkut cookies
 QUESTION: I have been trying to open Orkut for the past two months, but I get an error message saying that I should enable the cookies in the browser. I have formatted my hard disk twice,...
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COOL GADGETS: Mobile 3G device
 HTC Universal is a 3G-enabled device with Windows Mobile 5.0 features. The built-in keyboard enables users to create and edit files with MS Office. The video telephony and dual camera functionality...
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