October 07, 2006 Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World. This page is updated every Saturday. For current issue Click here Remote sensing earthquakes THE earthquake cycle still remains a mystery for man. However, continued research work by scientists and engineers has provided answers to some aspects of the phenomenon called earthquake.... Dispelling myths: Cuban biotechnology setting milestones WE only knew Cuba for its great revolutionary Che Guevara and the infallible Marxist leader Fidel Castro. The curtain of ignorance about the country lifted up for the people in Pakistan... Alfred Nobel and the prize that almost didn’t happen WHEN Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite and more powerful explosives, died in 1896, he bequeathed the bulk of his fortune to create five annual prizes honouring ingenuity. The chemistry, medicine and physics prizes have come to be widely regarded as the most esteemed in their fields.... A global communications system RECOGNISING the need for multiple third generation (3G) services, relentless research in wireless communications technology is producing new ideas and spectacular achievements. From the perspective of a mobile network operator, enhancements... Webwatch Need to preserve http://www.biodiversityhotspots.org/xp/Hotspots Although this website is very interesting and informative in terms of its vivid descriptions of those biodiversity spots which are sadly endangered, it is somewhat sad to see that they are so many of them.... Software design and modelling tools SOFTWARE modeling is one of the major initial steps undertaken before an actual code is written. But it’s a fact that still many independent software vendors tend to overlook this highly... More about stars JUST like human beings, stars are also born, live their lives and, finally, die — only over a much longer period of time; that is, from a few hundred million to billions of years. A star begins to form when a huge gaseous cloud, mainly composed of hydrogen, starts to collapse under its own gravitational pull. Astronomers call it nebula.... GIS could solve public problems GEOGRAPHIC Information System (GIS) is one of the information technologies that have changed the way scientists and researchers contribute to the betterment of society. In the past two decades, these information... SCIENCE UPDATE: The ascent of wind power DILIP Pantosh Patil uses an ox-drawn wooden plough to till the same land as his father, grandfather and great-grandfather. But now he has a new neighbour: a shiny white wind turbine... NATIONAL SCENE: Power grid hit by safety disregard A Wapda committee inquiring into the recent nationwide power breakdown has concluded that precautionary measures were not taken and standard operating procedures were not observed in repairing the transmission line, causing the massive outage.... The scrapping business ONE of the questions I am always bombarded with whenever someone visits my profile on Orkut (http://www. orkut.com) is why there are no scraps in my scrapbook.... Cool gadgets Fresh from the stove SHAPER IMAGE’s SensorfreshQ is a portable device that measures the bacteriological activity on uncooked meat or poultry.... Byteback Inbox size QUESTION: My Hotmail inbox is 2MB. I tried to increase its size but nothing happened. Also, I am not receiving any emails on it. Please help me.... ITeaser THINK your IT knowledge is really good? Rack your brains with this ITeaser and find out for sure:...

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