Dinosaurs might have once gazed into the Grand Canyon
It had been thought that the canyon formed 6 million years ago, but now two geologists say it is actually closer to 70 million years old
Saturn's rings may double up as a moon factory
A new model suggests Saturn's famous rings spawned the planet's moons. Could the mechanism explain the moons of Uranus, Neptune and even Earth?
Gaming the future: the best of 2012
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Friday Illusion: Mystery mirror reveals missing banana
A prize for the first person to figure out how a strange mirror image remains in view
Syria again disconnects nation from the internet
Once again, the Syrian government appears to have pulled the plug on the internet, cutting off its citizens from the rest of the world
Crowdfund your area's projects one brick at a time
As the recession bites and budgets are cut, websites are springing up that allow citizens to club together to fund everything from parks to bridges
Omniphobia: the stuffs that stick at nothing
Whether it's water, oil, ketchup or ants, materials that repel everything that touches them are on the way, says Jessica Griggs
Feedback: Commas in breach of copyright
Why these words break the law, impure apples, Google rewrites the history of everything, and more
A quantum of... We want to see your movies!
The deadline for the Quantum Shorts Film Competition is hard on us and we've already had some amazing entries - submit yours before Sunday
LHC sees hint of high-speed particle pancake
Purely by accident, the Higgs-boson-hunting Large Hadron Collider may have stumbled upon a rare state of matter called a colour-glass condensate
Social bee-haviour: The secret life of the hive
Bees have a brain the size of a pinhead, yet their daily activities rival the range of behaviours seen in many mammals
Florida pet spa mystery link to China's great firewall
China's censors have innovative ways of stopping its citizens accessing banned websites, including poisoning internet servers
Giant tortoises bounce back in the Galapagos
A slow and steady rescue mission has seen the population of the iconic creatures on Española Island leap from just 12 into the thousands
Messenger finds hints of ice at Mercury's poles
The innermost planet of the solar system could harbour a small polar habitable zone - but the chances of finding life there are remote
Projections of sea level rise are vast underestimates
Estimates made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007 were wildly wrong
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