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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…
Column: The wondrous world of science
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…
