Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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The long march of evolution
 The most profound study of evolution was made by an English naturalist, Charles Darwin (1809-1882), whose recognition of relationship through....
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Byteback
 Editor’s reply: Adobe Photoshop, due to its extremely large size (around 600MB with plugins), is usually not hosted on any server. You will find the version 7.0...
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Bionic man is now a reality
 The 1970s gave us the six-million-dollar man. Thirty years and quite a bit of inflation later we have the six-billion-dollar human: not a physical cyborg as such...
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Reaching for the stars
 People dreamt of spaceflight for millennia before it became a reality. When space travel was only a fantasy, researchers in the areas of astronomy, chemistry....
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Thirst for real knowledge
 Just who would want to vandalise an entry on cheese? wonders Skip, a Wikipedia administrator. Watching the online encyclopaedia’s raw submission queue....
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Improving your 3-D lingo
 It was used in computer games like the Need For Speed: Most Wanted, World of WarCraft and CounterStrike which became the de facto entertainment....
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Webwatch
 This website as an interesting combination of geography and international relations. Under geography it covers in-depth profiles of most of the countries...
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Change of address
Have you ever been banned by an ISP or a local network because your network card possesses a particular MAC address? This could be a firewall employing...
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Spinning into action
 Dictionary defines the gyroscope as a device that “consists of a spinning mass, in general a disk or wheel, installed on a support so that its axis can turn freely...
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Crash into thy neighbour
 The earth’s only natural satellite has been posing many questions since thousands of years. The changing shape and size of this silver-lighted object has....
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A heart brought back to life
Pioneering surgery on a 12-year-old girl whose heart was reconnected 10 years after she received a transplant was recently hailed as a crucial advance....
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Another case of bird flu detected
The government last week confirmed the presence of bird flu virus in a poultry farm in Sihala, which is near Islamabad. It was the second evidence of bird flu....
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Cool gadgets
 The Samsung Yepp YP-D1 MP3 player comes with many extra features, good sound quality and includes decent earbuds. It boasts of 2GB of on-board flash...
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The rise of clip culture
 The telecommunications and broadcast industries’ vision of the future of internet invariably involves its convergence with television. Large telecommunication...
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