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Science.com

March 11, 2006

Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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GM varieties grown successfully
Cotton is an important cash crop for Pakistan and is known as “white gold”. It accounts for 8.2 per cent of the value added in the agriculture sector and about 3.2...
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Byteback
Editor’s reply: Over time the computer gets slower because of the decreasing space in the hard disk, the OS losing its initial settings and files, new software using...
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Human activities fuel diseases?
About ten years ago, the British government first reported a link between the cattle disease bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and its human equivalent...
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Unity of forces
What are the fundamental constituents of matter? What are the fundamental “forces” through which the fundamental constituents interact? Let’s try to answer these....
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Plastic money not catching on
The GREAT convenience that electronic payment offers, in the shape of plastic money, has made it the global currency. It’s like having your bank account...
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The pixel game — II
Our discussion on digital cameras continues in this issue of Sci-tech World. We will now turn towards issues that you should keep in mind when shopping for a digital camera....
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Webwatch
If you don’t much like reading anything online, you can simply tune in to web radio on this website and listen to all things scientific...
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Virtually yours
In THE software and services industries, the need to organise teams, projects and tasks is one of the major issues facing the managers. With workplace environment...
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Of gas turbines and engines
The idea of the gas turbine was born in 150 BC. This was when an Egyptian called “Hero” invented a rotating toy. When the toy was placed on a boiling pan....
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Symphony of ‘silent’ spins
Have you ever been stuck in a traffic jam on a June afternoon in Lahore? You are at the head of the lane and the traffic light is red....
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Startling erosion of Antarctic ice
The Antarctic ice sheet, which contains 90 per cent of the world’s ice, has lost significant mass in the past few years. The discovery comes as a surprise to scientists...
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Ministries differ on bird flu tests
The ministries of health and agriculture have been contradicting each other over the results of tests carried out on samples taken from various poultry farms...
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Cool gadgets
The sony ericsson w600i walkman is a swivel style gaming phone with a relatively good reception. The speakers are good enough for both indoor...
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Discover music electronically
There is an argument that technological innovations over the past 25 years have democratised music. Get yourself a laptop and some cheap (or free) software...
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