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• Rosetta comet-chaser phones home, and other stories - our morning round-up

• Triple star system 'can reveal secrets of gravity', and other stories - our morning round-up

• Not going to reach my telephone

  We worry that new technology is ruining our ability to think – in fact, such fears have been around since the very invention of writing

• NASA orders emergency International Space Station repairs, and other stories - our morning round-up

• Adding up with The Simpsons

  Simon Singh is one of our best science writers, but a gruelling libel battle derailed his career. Now, he tells Paul Sims, he’s back to doing what he loves

• Girls can't do physics? How schools are failing to tackle gender stereotypes

  A new report suggests that stereotypes persist, writes Samira Shackle

• How did the universe get so complicated?

  We live in a random universe, explains Marcus Chown

• Hope still for 'dead' Comet Ison, and other stories - our morning round-up

• Do we need new laws to regulate fracking?

• Fracking: the cost to communities

  We need to listen to those who don’t want shale gas exploration on their doorsteps, says Ewa Jasiewicz.