Submission + - RHEL5 Released
An anonymous reader writes: Red Hat's new operating system's modular design answers critics of "bloated" operating systems, says Red Hat executive
Submission + - Cause Of Early Blindness Linked To Tissue Defect
Anonymous Coward writes: "Researchers at Texas A&M University are shedding light on a rare form of early blindness, identifying the cells involved and paving the way for possible therapies to treat or even prevent what is currently an incurable disease. Read More"
Submission + - Kuiper Belt Collision Found; Possible Comet Source
siglercm writes: Astronomers have detected the remnants of an
ancient collision in the Kuiper
Belt, the region of bodies found outside of our solar system. The massive impact
between a nearly Pluto-sized body and one half as large created a "collisional family" of objects; this
is the first such family identified in the Kuiper Belt. The largest body produced may cross
Neptune's orbit in the distant future, but it's possible that smaller objects created by the smash-up
have already fallen into the inner solar system as comets.
Submission + - Stolen Nobel Medal Returned
Gilraen writes: A Nobel medal swiped from the University of California, Berkeley, was returned to officials in a brief ceremony on 7 March.
The solid gold medallion, awarded to physicist Ernest Lawrence in 1939 for the invention of the cyclotron, was stolen from its display case at the end of February. It has an estimated monetary value of $4,200.
More on this story here: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v446/n7133/fu ll/446243a.html
