NEW SCIENCE AT WORK

Scientists look at Maimonides' work
Scientists at a British university hope to use digital technology in reassembling some 300,000 tiny fragments of Maimonides' 800-year-old oeuvre. (A.P./Washington Post)

The DNA detectives
Powerful forensic techniques developed to identify victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the Southeast Asian tsunami are about to be used for another worthwhile purpose: reuniting Jewish families separated by the Holocaust. (The Herald)