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Of contributions made by Arabs
 Science as a systematic body of knowledge was initiated in Greece. Activities simulating science elsewhere — such as in Babylon, Egypt or Central America — were termed “protoscience” by a celebrated historian....
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Byteback
 I have a P4 (Intel Celeron Family) with 128MB RAM, 2.00GHz Processor and a 40 GB hard disk. I run Windows XP (SP 1) on my PC. But Windows keeps telling me that my system’s virtual memory is too low. How I can fix this problem? Also, please recommend...
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Technology: ‘Shining Pakistan’
 Getting awarded for hard work is an exciting and exhilarating experience, especially when your endeavours are appreciated not only nationally but also internationally. Four Pakistani students — Ismail Sultan, Khalil Sultan,...
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Breakthrough: What makes us human
 Scientists have determined the precise order of the 3 billion bits of genetic code that carry the instructions for making a chimpanzee, according to research papers published last week....
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Technology: Artificial complex systems
 The readers may be aware of how engineers are drawing inspiration from natural, especially biological, complex systems in building smarter artificial systems. And they may already have learnt of the paradigm of self-organization that underpins all natural and artificial complex systems....
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Geekworld: Cop and the drug chase
 NARC is an action/adventure game, which intends to challenge other games like Grand Theft Auto4, Driver3 and Hitman. A tall order indeed, but the developers, Midway and Point of View have managed to keep the game from falling into the trap....
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Webwatch
 This website enables you to see various images as honey bees see them. You can actually see through a honey bee’s eye and analyse how its vision is different from yours. You select the images and the program will simulate how the bee will see them...
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Tips and tricks: ‘Live’ experience explained
If you are a victim of frequent operating system crashes, then Live CD is right for you. Revolutionizing the way we boot up computers into a pre-installed OS, Live CDs are...
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Nitty-gritty: Learn about synthetic life
 Scientists look upon the concept of evolution as the spring from which many creative ideas flow. Some scientists believe that the process of evolution has not ended, but is continuing in one or the other form....
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Genetics: When cells go haywire
 Most of us are familiar with genetic diseases, such as haemophilia, sickle-cell anaemia, cystic fibrosis thalassaemia, cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease. Many of us are under the impression that these are incurable....
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Global update: Microsoft throws down the gauntlet to Google
Microsoft directly challenged Google last week in the burgeoning US internet telephony market by buying Teleo, a firm that allows users to make calls from their computers to normal telephones....
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National scene: Govt to increase gas production by 10 per cent
The government has decided to increase gas production by 10 per cent in the next few months to narrow down the gap between demand and supply....
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In the end...: Of hailers and refuseniks
 TheY SAY the internet has become a way of life. Conventional terms like “bookworms” and “couch potatoes” have gradually given way to more trendy words like “techies”, “geeks” and “cyberpunks”....
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Cool gadgets
 The Solar EFX Mobile Charger not only charges the internal batteries of your cellphone, but also your PDA, MP3 or any other portable device. A bit slow (takes about five hours) but...
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