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Interview: Giving vision to chips
The combination of microelectronics with photonics has revolutionised the way modern inventors contemplate scientific ideas. Technologies deploying this hybrid marvel…
Column: The Wondrous World of Science
Plastic—from bananas, pineapples and coconuts
Most plastics are normally made through polymerisation reactions of certain chemicals that come from petroleum…
Food production: The hazardous trend
The heedless rush towards cultivating biofuel crops in Pakistan is quite liable to exacerbate malnutrition levels which, according to a…
Virtual world: Create your own business on the net
As employment opportunities are eroding fast, and wheels of economy are coming down to a deadly crunch, more and more…
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Extinguishing fires—with electricity
Electricity is normally associated with causing fires through short circuiting. However, George Whitesides and co-workers at Harvard…
Technology trends: Developing a world on the go
We had seen it coming, but it has finally happened. The world is jumping off the desktop, off the laptop…
Review: Say aye
When the iPad was launched last year, it was termed as “the most successful consumer product ever launched.” It created…
Virtual world: The war of the cards
“The name’s Bond, James Bond,” the writer Ian Fleming’s brilliant line to attract potential girlfriends as well as evil nemesis…
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Around planet Mercury—after six years
The US spacecraft, Messenger, has been travelling for the last six-and-a-half years in our solar…
The US spacecraft, Messenger, has been travelling for the last six-and-a-half years in our solar…
Environment: Climate change realities
The short-term memory has already classified the winter of 2010-2011 as both long and cold in the majority of the…
Interview: Challenges of automation industry
Technological advancement is rampant in every walk of life since the pioneering days of Industrial Revolution in the West. It…
Virus alert: Catch me if you can
Technology has come a long way from the days when users had to deal with issues such as settings of…
Column: The wondrous world of science
Biofuels—from cellulose munching bacteria
With the rising prices of oil affecting the economies of many countries, there is a growing…
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Electronic clothing—glowing ladies
Imagine that you are wearing an evening party dress that glows softly, emitting light in various slowly…
Interview: Challenges of the digital frontier
With the surging information and communication technology infrastructure, the time is not far when each household in Pakistan would own…
Alien life: Seeking the extraordinary
The art and culture have always been fascinated with extra terrestrials making contact with humans. From cryptic hieroglyphics of ancient…
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Thought-controlled cars
Can cars be controlled and driven purely by thought? This appears to be impossible, but in this strange…
Interview: Bridging the knowledge gap
Building habitats and structures has been native to mankind since the onset of civilisation. Apart from shelter and security, structures…
Social media: Twitter uprisings
The ongoing revolutions in Tunis, Egypt and Libya owe their success to social websites like Twitter as much as they…
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Homeopathy—is it science?
Before discussing the issue of homeopathy, one needs to understand the ‘placebo effect’. If a patient takes…
Well being: The way to go
Health has always been a family affair which, primarily, mothers are expected to watch over by dishing up wholesome foods,…
Mobile technology: Small wonder
Mobile phones have served as a catalyst in the process of global integration of communities. Handsets—even simple ones with SMS…
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A 15-storey building—in six days
Amazing advances in building technologies in China were evident in the construction of sports stadiums…
Marine life: One for the turtles
Once upon a time, turtles were a part of myths and held a high place in legends of many Far…
Interview: Waste to watts
While engineers across the globe continue to remain obsessed with the idea of providing cooler, cleaner and greener power as…
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Robotic fighter aircraft—a new era begins
The tremendous advances in machine intelligence are heralding a new era in which machines…
Internet calls: Jumping on the bandwagon
Hey, it’s time for everybody to Skype. We all do it nearly every day. It makes a telephone call redundant,…
Virtual world: Ready for online shopping?
If you are a Pakistani, you are likely to be addicted to shopping. Be it shopping in malls, in a…
Genomes: Know your genes… fast
Personal computing transported the technology out of large machines to the comfort of a room in the form of desktop,…
Mayan calendar: End of the world, not so close
Predictions regarding doomsday scenario—both scientific and according to ancient calculations—have encouraged researchers to present their own theories. The Mayan apocalypse…
