The Grand Canyon is dramatic enough today - but imagine it with roaming dinosaurs. It now appears that it's been around for 70 million years, a good 65 million longer than believed.
New dating evidence supports claims that bones found under a church floor in Bulgaria could be those of John the Baptist - although of course they could equally well belong to his contemporary Fred the Goatherd.
God knows it’s an idea whose time has obviously come. Frankly, I’m amazed it hasn’t happened sooner, but apparently there’s a show called Geek Love the Learning Channel will premiere on December 18.
A new analysis of a piece of lunar rock indicates that the moon is much younger than previously thought - or else scientists have been dramatically wrong about the way in which it was formed.