Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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The great meltdown
 Environmentalists are debating whether or not the melting of the Siachen glacier is as serious as it seems. Meanwhile, military activity continues to be the norm in the region with adverse...
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Beyond reasonable doubt
 One of the supreme qualities of a human being over other living creatures is his/her ability to reason and ask questions. The quest to know and learn has been the focus of man since birth...
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Byteback
 EDITOR’S REPLY: ActiveX is not a programming language or a program. It is, in fact, a set of rules for the way applications should share information. Think of an ActiveX control like...
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Thinking small for the future
Lighter and a thousand times stronger than steel, nanotubes are bound to bring a revolutionary change, with faster computers, stronger materials and more effective medicines...
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Of all things fishy
 Sometimes forwarded mails turn out to be nothing but a menace. They often make people believe that something is seriously wrong. Hafsa Ahsan writes about a website....
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Return of the King
 GOD of War II (GoW II) for the PlayStation 2 (PS2) is the sequel to the first game — God of War — which was released in 2005 and was a runaway hit. Like the earlier game in the series...
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Spring clean your PC
 “MY computer takes a long time to boot”, “I keep getting the ‘virtual memory too low’ message”, “Help! My computer’s become really slow”. Recognise these complaints?...
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When a brain forgets where memory is
 Every so often, seemingly normal people suddenly walk out of their lives and disappear, with no recollection of who they are, where they are from or what their previous life was like...
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Up, up and away
 IT was just a few years go, that yours truly stared with amazement at the futuristic design of a huge luxury aircraft, much like the great Titanic that took to the seas a long time ago....
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Here and There
 The speakers at a seminar stressed the need for adopting disease early warning system (DEWS) and warned that if timely measures were not taken, 34 to 76 million people could die...
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News Beat
 People looking for relief from arthritis pain often turn to the dietary supplement chondroitin, so much so that by some estimates the market for the supplement is $1 billion a year...
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Cool Gadgets
 The Bluetooth Laser Virtual Keyboard is a tiny device with a laser which projects a keyboard on any flat surface. You can then type away accompanied by simulated key click sounds...
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