Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Pluto becomes a relic of history
 Pluto got its walking papers last week. Throw away the table mats. Write new textbooks and redraw the classroom charts....
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Byteback
 EDITOR’S REPLY: Chipset boards can be defined as motherboards with designated groups of microchips that are designed to work with one or more related functions...
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GIS may resolve our civic problems
 Geographic Information System (GIS), a system of hardware, software, data, people, organisations and institutional arrangements for collecting, storing, analysing and disseminating....
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Human diseases and poultry meat
 Salmonellae cause typhoid fever and food poisoning in humans. The cause of typhoid fever is Salmonella typhi. The prevalence of diseases caused by Salmonella organisms is increasing....
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A primeval tide of toxins
 The fireweed began each spring as tufts of hairy growth and spread across the seafloor fast enough to cover a football field in an hour. When fishermen touched it, their skin broke....
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The future is here to stay
 BEYOND desktop and mainframe computing, shared applications provide a means to meet information technology needs. The concept of application service provision (ASP)....
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Webwatch
 This website is truly a complete planet of physics, if there ever was one. Featured here is an open encyclopaedia to which just about anyone can contribute...
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Audio on demand
PODCASTING is quickly becoming the buzzword among techies. It’s being marked as the technology that will change how we consume audio....
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More about antibiotics
 THE goddess Sekhmet in the Egyptian mythology was believed to have the ability to cure diseases, which is why priests played a great part in early Egyptian medicine....
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Impact of space technology
 OVER the past few decades, technology involved in space exploration has had a direct impact on everyday life. Despite mounting criticism of billions of dollars being spent...
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Ex-planet’s fans voice dismay
 Sitting in Pluto’s, a salad and sandwich shop in San Francisco’s Marina District, John Neal summed up his feelings, and those of many other earthlings, about the sudden shrinking....
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Galaxies collide
 A football player tackled hard enough may lose his helmet. Now, astronomers have found two clusters of galaxies that collided so hard one of them has lost its halo of dark...
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$500m Thar coal firm planned
The government has decided to set up a $500 million Thar Coal Mining Company in the private sector to develop the country’s largest coal deposit after having failed....
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Cool gadgets
 HAMMACHER’S PORTABLE DVD player allows you to watch DVDs in a much more convenient way. The device comes with AV cables for connecting it to a television...
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Mass media on the web
ONE consequence of contemporary technology is that differences between various mass media are gradually diminishing. There was a time when dramas and sitcoms....
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ITeaser
Think your IT knowledge is really good? Rack your brains with this ITeaser and find out for sure: The software that controls everything that happens in a computer is called...
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