Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Coal deposits a dilemma for country
 Pakistan is blessed with huge reserves of coal, estimated at 184 billion tonnes. When in the early nineties, huge coal reserves were found in Tharparkar, Sindh....
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Byteback
 QUESTION: What is Spyware? Is there some way to find out whether someone is sending virus to my PC?...
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Astronomy: The Copernican revolution
 T he complexities of the Ptolemaic system exasperated King Alfonso (1221-84 CE)… when the intricacies of epicycles, deferants, and...
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Points to ponder: The riddles of science
 IN THE mid-fourteenth century, a great part of Europe was ravaged by a deadly pandemic of plague, also known as ‘black death’....
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Technology: Towards an ‘open’ world
 Ever since computer programmers began collaborating online to build software applications, the “open source” movement has been developing into a serious rival to the....
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Geekworld: Screening monitors
 As technology makes headway, it brings with it improvements. A case in point are the computers, which have come a long way. From its traditional square-shaped, box-like structure to thin and...
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Webwatch
 This is an extremely comprehensive website detailing the different parts of the body. Divided into several sections, each section...
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Tips and tricks: Rooting it out
RootKit is a tool that attempts to hide its presence by pretending to be a part of the Operating System (OS). This is done by intercepting API calls, effectively sitting between legal interactions of a PC....
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Nitty-gritty: The highs and lows of temperature
 Temperature is the macroscopic manifestation of the energy level of atoms and molecules in a substance, or substances existing in the same thermal equilibrium. Higher the molecular energy level....
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Food for thought: In quest of new dimensions
 Our standard of living improved as we moved through the stone, bronze and iron ages. Today, we are in a technological era and materials available now have been creating a stir...
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Stars of the ocean
 a man caught some squid from the sea downstream from the Karachi Nuclear Power Plant. By the time he had cleaned the catch, it was night, so he wrapped up his work for the day, and switched....
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Global update: And now — man-made human embryos?
British scientists have been given the green light to create human embryos with genetic material from two mothers. Scientists based at the Newcastle University will use the technique to help develop...
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National scene: Dubai Internet City in talks with Pakistan
The Dubai Internet City (DIC) is currently holding talks with authorities in Pakistan, Malta, India and Iran to set up facilities in various cities as part of its ongoing ‘Going Global’ initiative....
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Cool gadgets
 The Morphy Richards 29204 player boasts of 256MB of storage, runs for 16 hours on a battery and weighs 48 grams at a size of 87x41x20mm. It includes an FM tuner and voice recorder...
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In the end...: Science and its limitations
 It is difficult for a human being to imagine life other than his or her own. The modern world is so dramatically different from what preceded it that it is virtually...
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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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