Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Finding the lost innovations of Islam
 It is the thread that links cars, carpets and cameras and is also responsible for three-course meals, bookshops and modern medicine....
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Byteback
 QUESTION: I am using WinXP and Win98 with a 2.4GHz processor and 512MB RAM. When I shut down my computer in XP, the menu takes a long time to appear and it takes...
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How Muslim inventors changed the world
 From coffee to cheques and the three-course meal, the Muslim world has given us many innovations that we in the West take for granted. Here are 20 of their most influential...
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Uselessness of useful antibiotics
 Not long ago it was widely believed that human health would no longer be threatened by serious bacterial infections. Bacterial diseases such as tuberculosis...
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Country’s first dinosaur fossils
 Although dinosaur fossils have been around for millions of years, and have been found even in India and China, the first Mesozoic dinosaur fossils from Pakistan....
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Banking on the internet
 In this fast world, internet banking has seeped deep into our corporate scenario. Fast, convenient, and to a large extent reliable, more and more people are....
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Webwatch
 Of course, when it comes to science and technology, there are many people who can be credited with furthering the field and acting as pioneers of advances in different...
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Breaking codes
Passwords today have become an essential tool for various processes. Be it email accounts, ATM or debit cards, you need a password or PIN to enforce control....
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How deep runs the light?
 The transparency of bodies of water, like ponds, lakes or oceans, is their important characteristic. The issue of how much sunlight is filtered through water or how much visibility a specific...
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Stringing theories together
 Physicists have been trying for centuries to understand the universe and all the physical phenomena that take place anywhere in it, from Big Bang to black holes....
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Top search engines
 The search engine market is dominated by Google. However, there are other search engines as well which do a good job. Here is a list of the best in the field...
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Comet’s dust throws up mystery
Dust particles collected from the tail of a comet and returned to Earth by the spacecraft Stardust are challenging scientists’ theories of how the solar system formed....
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Quake prediction centre in country likely
An Earthquake Prediction and Probability Analysis Centre would be established in the country soon, said Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz recently. The proposed centre would....
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Cool gadgets
 THE CREATIVE TRAVELDOCK ZEN MICRO offers impressive sound quality and includes features like a subwoofer output. It doubles as a headphone jack. It also comes...
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The pen’s power to heal
 Writing is a powerful tool to express one’s inner thoughts and feelings. It is often said that when the going gets tough, jotting down thoughts and feelings on a piece of...
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ITeaser
Think your IT knowledge is really good? Rack your brain with this ITeaser and find out for sure: 1. What is Google’s slogan?, 2. In which language are the .aspx pages...
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