Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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The unfinished symphony
 This IS the World Year of Physics. Why? Because a century ago the Earth was shaken. Yes it was. Not just shaken once...
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Impact of physics
 MODERN science is relatively new; its roots date back to the 17th century. In contrast, technology ....
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Govt role in promoting physics
 As the projects launched by HEC focus on the uplift of higher education as a whole, they have led to improvements in education and research in physics too, claims the commission’s...
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The pioneers
 Any discussion of the World Year of Physics would certainly be incomplete if one does not mention the role Muslim scientists played in the development of the subject. Today when we...
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Building a new vision
 The FAMOUS Pakistani recipient of the Nobel Prize, Prof Abdus Salam, was born in a lower middle-class family in Jhang on Jan 29, 1926. He received ...
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Milestones in physics
 The ORIGIN of physical discoveries and inventions goes all the way back to ancient Greek and Egyptian scientists, who....
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Meet Einstein’s heirs EDWARD WITTEN is so softly spoken that his voice sometimes threatens to drift away completely. His desk is a jumble of ...
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Webwatch : Physics for the third millennium
 http://www.wyp-ptm.org/ “Physics for the Third Millennium” was a conference organized ...
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Neural network applications
CAN A computer read words aloud, recognize faces, detect and track moving targets, develop controllers for character animation, monitor UV radiations and predict physical phenomena? Can it be taught to do...
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And the Nobel goes to...
 Twentieth century physics can be broadly classified into three main eras. First is the era from 1901 to 1930, which was dominated by a series ...
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Fire inside the Sun
 SOME FIVE billion years ago in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way was a huge gas cloud, mainly containing ...
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Dancing to the space-time equation
If ONE was asked to name two geniuses who dominated physics in the previous millennium, most people will be quick to mention Newton and Einstein. I mean, after all, they did...
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