Sweden Imports Waste From European Neighbors To Fuel Waste-To-Energy Program
A bridge in downtown Stockholm. Since its recycling program has been so successful, Sweden has been forced to import trash to power its waste-to-energy program, which provides heating and electricity....
View ArticleSalam, Abdus Salam [1 of 2]
· A two-room bungalow, the birth place of Pakistan’s only Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam, today stands empty, testament to the indifference, bigotry and prejudice surrounding the country’s greatest...
View ArticleDoomsday for Iran? US Tests EMP Bomb
As it stands, one of the best ways to render a building packed with satellite and communications equipment ineffective is to get someone close enough to throw that one, clearly marked breaker switch....
View ArticleTry this incredible interactive four BILLION pixel image of Everest
Mount Everest is the Earth’s highest mountain, with a peak at 8,848 metres above sea level. In 1865, Everest was given its official English name by the Royal Geographical Society upon a recommendation...
View ArticleExclusive: Prof. James Trevelyan on Power Options for Pakistan
· · NATURE’S POWER Increasing Our Use of Renewable and Alternate Energy · In spite of efforts by prime minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and his team to bring an end to the torture of loadshedding,...
View ArticleNanotechnology and us
· A nanometre is about the same proportion to a metre as a marble is to the earth. Gold for instance becomes blue-green, red or purple in colour, depending on the particle size, if its size is reduced...
View ArticleSalam, Abdus Salam
· Imagine yourself in Stockholm on December 10, 1979. In different rooms of a grand hotel, nine of the world’s smartest men scramble into black tailcoats and white bowties; preparing to receive Nobel...
View ArticleDr. Abdus Salam – The ’Mystic’ Scientist (1 of 3)
· · DR.ABDUS SALAM, A GREAT NAME FOR PAKISTAN, BUT WE PAKISTANIS ALWAYS INGNORED HIM · · BY ATIF · In 1925, a peasant belonging to Jhang had a prophetic dream. In response to his prayers, an infant...
View ArticleDr. Abdus Salam – The ’Mystic’ Scientist (2 of 3)
· . DR. ABDUS SALAM, A GREAT NAME FOR PAKISTAN, BUT WE PAKISTANIS ALWAYS INGNORED HIM · · BY ATIF · In his first meeting with Einstein, their whole discussion was about religion and Dr. Salam...
View ArticleDr. Abdus Salam – The ’Mystic’ Scientist (3 of 3)
· · DR. ABDUS SALAM, A GREAT NAME FOR PAKISTAN, BUT WE PAKISTANIS ALWAYS INGNORED HIM · · BY ATIF · · After winning the Nobel Prize, he received invitations from India and several other countries and...
View ArticleThe Nuclear Shadow Over Karachi [1 of 3]
· The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was a catastrophic failure at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant on 11 March 2011, It resulted in a meltdown of three of the plant’s six nuclear reactors. The...
View ArticleThe Nuclear Shadow Over Karachi [2 of 3]
· A further concern is how well the Pakistani operators will understand and manage the new Chinese reactors. The operators, who will be from the PAEC, are likely to have less-than-complete knowledge of...
View ArticleThe Nuclear Shadow Over Karachi [3 of 3]
· The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was a catastrophic failure at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant on 11 March 2011, It resulted in a meltdown of three of the plant’s six nuclear reactors. The...
View ArticleFishing the Phish of Internet
Spear-phishing is the type of tool the attackers use to compromise endpoints and gain a foothold in an enterprise’s network. The issue has been deemed serious enough to cause an alarm on the worrying...
View ArticlePakistan Beats India to Associate Membership at CERN
· THE GLOBE OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION AT CERN. PHOTO: FILE . “It would be embarrassing if Pakistan becomes an associate member of CERN before India”, said eminent Indian scientist and Homi Bhabha...
View ArticleWe are sorry, Dr. Abdus Salam
· Salam’s biggest dream was to establish an international research centre in Pakistan. Unfortunately, the Government of Pakistan did not show any interest in his cause and eventually Salam had to set...
View ArticlePakistan’s unsung genius [1 of 2]
· Mohammad Abdus Salam (1926-1996) was his full name, which may add to the knowledge of those who wish he was either not Ahmadi or Pakistani. The man proudly lived and died as both, and much more, as...
View ArticlePakistan’s unsung genius [2 of 2]
· Perhaps the last major breakthrough in the world of particle physics came in the 1960s when Dr Abdus Salam, a Pakistani physicist, proposed a mathematical model that unified two of the four...
View ArticleExposing Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan’s fraud
Though Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan claims to be father of Pakistani atom bomb as well as of its advanced missile program, yet fact remains that both these programs have been collective efforts of a large...
View ArticleDisarmament is for wimps. Go get your nukes if you can
· Russian leader Vladimir Putin, in a pre-filmed interview said that he was ready to use nuclear weapons if the West had tried to stop him seizing Crimea. He made the comment in a documentary, “Crimea....
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