Top 5 at 5: Technology and Science stories

GJ1214b, which has an atmosphere that is at least 50 per cent water by mass, orbits very close to a red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth. (NASA/ESA/D. Aguilar, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)Each day, we bring you a list of Top 5 stories. Sometimes they're the most read stories of the day, other times we focus on a specific region or category.

Today, we bring you the top five stories from the CBC News Technology and Science page.

1) 'Faster-than-light' particles may have been even speedier

Subatomic particles clocked at speeds exceeding the speed of light may have been going even faster than they appeared, physicists say.

2) Y chromosome isn't going extinct after all

The popular theory that the Y chromosome is well on its way to losing all its genes is wrong, a new study suggests.

3) Astronomers discover 'waterworld,' a brand new planet type

Astronomers have discovered an extremely hot, steamy world with far more water than Earth, which they are calling a completely new type of planet.

4) New amphibian family found in India

Since before the age of dinosaurs, it has burrowed unbothered beneath the monsoon-soaked soils of remote northeast India -- unknown to science and mistaken by villagers as a deadly, miniature snake.

5) Twitter head tells those who spend hours on site to stop

To those of you who tweet and follow others on Twitter all the livelong day, the co-founder of the immensely popular social networking site has a message for you. Stop it!