Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Do microbes possess consciousness?
“What is the ultimate scope of science? Is it just the material attributes of our universe that is amenable to its methods, whereas our mental existence must forever lie outside... 
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Byteback
 EDITOR’S REPLY: The error “80004005” means that the script could not access your data. The most likely reason is a permission-related...
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Just another face in the crowd
 Some people never forget a face. Heather Sellers never remembers one. She finds it almost impossible to recognise people simply by looking at them....
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Back to the past?
 Pakistan is one of the largest agrarian economies in the region, but unfortunately its agricultural output has declined in the last few decades. Last year its major crops...
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Ethical travel takes off
 It was the cockroaches, in the end, that turned Paul Leonard into an ethical traveller. A disastrous package trip to Spain, involving collapsing roofs and a beetle infestation....
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Species ‘holocaust’ on the cards?
The Deepening biodiversity crisis requires a new international coordinating mechanism to provide a united, authoritative scientific voice that may inform government....
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Towards new vistas
 The long-awaited Windows Vista Beta 2 was launched last month, a year after the previous beta release. This version of Windows will be the last one before the complete package is launched....
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Webwatch
 Sitting in front of the computer for long can be a painful business. After all, every technology has its disadvantages. This website dwells on some of the health hazards...
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DRM to the rescue
How many times have you wanted to protect a propriety material you or your company created, so that no one else may copy it? Given the current default abilities of operating...
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First radio transmission of voice
 On Dec 24 this year the entire global community will join hands to commemorate an amazing event that took place exactly 100 years ago and which changed forever....
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RFID and machine intelligence
 Is it possible to locate the exact position of an object or a person when literally thousands may be in the vicinity? Is it possible to record the exact movements...
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Microbes as weapons
The spectre of biological warfare is haunting the world because of the anthrax outbreaks in the United States and the possibility of its usage in future extremist attacks....
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Attempt to clone the first human
A maverick fertility expert has revealed hard evidence of a controversial attempt to produce the world’s first cloned human baby....
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Hazardous pesticides in stores
Tonnes of obsolete and hazardous pesticides have been lying for years in the agriculture department’s stores in 28 districts of Punjab, posing a threat of air, soil and groundwater contamination....
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Cool gadgets
 THE MOBILE ESPN MVP is a ‘big’ phone with good reception, volume and sound quality. It’s packed with sports information delivered through a slick, easy-to-use interface...
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Charge your engines
 For some motorists, it seems, the electric car has all the automotive appeal of a milk float. Last year, with prices of $3 a gallon looming, Americans bought 200,000 fuel-saving hybrids...
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