Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
This page is updated every Saturday.
Bringing power to the people
 THE ACUTE shortage of electricity, coupled with frequent breakdowns, has clearly exposed the vulnerabilities of our national grid. Electricity plays an important role in....
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Byteback
 QUESTION: I have a P4 3.0G processor with 512mb RAM. My work on the system primarily Involves Adobe PhotoShop or Adobe Premiere. I’ve been working on these programs...
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Wind energy: Rethinking the energy policy
 Electricity is one of the most useful inventions of modern times and life without it is becoming incomprehensible. As our....
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Environment: People’s victory against MNC
 IN THE end it was the ‘generosity’ of the beverage giant in distributing cadmium-laden waste sludge as ‘free fertilizer’ to the tribal....
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Computing: It’s a Grid world
 MUCH HAS been said and written about “convergence” — a world of seamless melding of computing, communications and data which...
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Geekworld: From paper to chip
 The goal of achieving a paperless office often seems elusive, but the thought makes us envision an efficient way of conducting business....
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Webwatch
 This website can be termed a learning tool for students of biology. It explores the various sections of the human...
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Tips and tricks: Scanning made easy
I nformation gathering and analysis is the first task in preparing for a hi-fi crime. With books like Hacking Exposed getting popular, importance of finger-printing and foot-printing cannot be ignored....
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Nitty-gritty: Learn about the steam engine
 I n the mid-eighteenth century, most industries in Europe started switching over to power machinery from hand-operated systems. In other words, power-tools began to replace hand-tools....
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Personality: Ahead of his times
 G regor J. Mendel (1822-1884) was a great scientist and the founder of genetics. Also called Mendelian Genetics or Classical Genetics, the discipline deals with inheritance....
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Global update: US states bypass Bush on emissions
America’s north-eastern states are on the brink of a declaration of environmental independence, with the introduction of mandatory controls on greenhouse gas emissions of the kind....
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National scene: IT projects worth Rs19.4 billion in the offing
The government will launch information technology projects worth Rs19.4 billion in the next five years to facilitate the development of IT sector in the country, said a reliable source....
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In the end...: The two and two of history
 With the science of psychohistory we can predict the future. We can map out the next thousand years in detail, and the next 30,000 in outline....
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Cool gadgets
 THE WOLF Claw II keyboard is designed for FPS gamers. Despite added keys, the keyboard does not take up more than an...
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