Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Cells out of control
 All organs of the body are made up of a mixture of cell types, each of which performs a different function but in harmony with one another....
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Byteback
 I have a P3 with 128MB RAM and 20GB hard disk. I recently installed the game Commandos 2: Men of Courage. The problem with the game...
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Earthquakes: Minimizing quake damage
Earthquake can be described as the sudden movement of the Earth’s surface due to the release of energy following volcanic eruption or movement of tectonic plates....
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Health matters: A pandemic on the cards
No one knows whether the bird flu now migrating across the globe will cause a human pandemic, but researchers say it is inevitable that some flu virus eventually will....
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Health matters: From the front lines in war on bird flu
The road from Budapest meanders through forested hills and quiet villages, before reaching a neat yellow building guarded by an old man in a boiler suit and a barking alsatian....
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Breakthrough: Penicillin’s impact on humanity
 The discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming is arguably the most important discovery in medicine. In 1928, while studying Staphylococcus variants (gram positive bacteria) in the...
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Geekworld: A site to behold
 The World Wide Web has become so popular that even a 10-year-old turns to websites to complete assignments and to get information....
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Webwatch
 This highly interactive website will help you gain a better understanding of how our brain works, besides explaining behavioural...
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Tips and tricks: Network sniffing
When you connect to the internet, or any other network, what goes on behind the scenes is obscure — and it is meant to be. But if you want to dig...
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Nitty-gritty: Learn about TMS
 The brain is the controlling centre of the body. Without a sound, functioning brain, the body cannot survive. Until now...
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Physics: Cheap source of near-endless power?
 It seems too good to be true: a new source of near-limitless power that costs virtually nothing, uses tiny amounts of water as its fuel....
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Childhood cancer rates rise
Cancer rates among children have been rising in the United Kingdom and Europe over the last 30 years, research has revealed....
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Global update: Signature of first stars detected
The weak glimmer left behind by the first stars to colonize the early universe has been detected by astronomers. Using Nasa’s Spitzer space telescope and careful calculations, Alexander Kashlinsky, at the...
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National scene: Assistance in artificial limb technology
Pakistan has sought assistance in artificial limb technology from the International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC) and the Red Crescent Societies for thousands of injured....
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In the end...: Time to rethink urban living?
 Arthur C. Clarke is perhaps the greatest science fiction writer alive. His scientific foresight made him famous, and he is most admired for his proposal to float a satellite into a 22,000-mile-high....
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Cool gadgets
 This stylish Digital Picture Frame allows you to simply take the memory card out of your camera and insert into it. This means you instantly get to view all your photos. You can also...
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