Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Mysteries of scientific discovery
 When a stationary neutron splits into a proton and an electron (beta decay), they have opposite momentums which are expected to exactly cancel out....
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Byteback
 Editor’s reply: I suggest that you edit your Boot.ini file. Ensure that you can see all your hidden files (Open any Folder in 98, Folder Options, View System Files) and then...
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And now, open access publishing?
 Scientific research funded by the European taxpayer should be freely available to everyone over the internet, according to a European Commission report...
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Solar dryers to the rescue
 Since ages man has been using energy from the Sun to dry agricultural produce. The material to be dried is simply spread out in the open, on the ground....
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Media to shape 21st century
 In chaos science — the study of systems in nature such as the weather and the movement of tectonic plates — everything is connected and small happenings....
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The ‘intelligent’ machines
 The study of robotics is related to the development of machines that can perform their jobs with a degree of self-autonomy. The classic definition of a robot...
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Webwatch
 If you are interested in physics and astronomy, you will definitely like this website. It offers many sections to explore and you can go through the news stories...
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Sniffing it out
For any network diagnostics operation, especially the one that involves traffic analysis, packet sniffing is the first and foremost requirement. There are many sniffing...
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Layered perfection
 “Look deep into Nature, and you will understand everything,” said Albert Einstein, as he focused on the need to observe the universe closely for a better....
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Copernicus — the stargazer
 Nicolaus Coperni- cus (1473-1543) was the first man to claim that the Earth revolved round the Sun, and not the other way round as was the general concept at the time....
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Gender-bending pollutants cause alarm
Scientists working along the south-west coast of Britain have discovered widespread evidence of chemicals disrupting the sexual development of sensitive marine....
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Quake-hit areas face ecological changes
Some serious ecological changes are surfacing in the aftermath of the October 8 earthquake in the northern districts of the NWFP and Azad Kashmir, a recent visit....
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Cool gadgets
 THE DELL DIMENSION E-310 entry-level PC comes with a dual-layered DVD writer, 13-inch card reader and Dell 2.1 speakers. The 2.8GHz Pentium...
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Freedom of expression
Freedom of expression is one slogan that is raised quite frequently these days. Whether it is an individual or an organisation, suddenly everyone has realised...
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