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Sorry, but NASA probably isn't sending astronauts to the moon in 2024

3 April 2019

The Trump administration has set NASA an ambitious goal of returning to the moon, but the agency doesn't have enough money or the right spacecraft to achieve this

All the info our brain needs for language nearly fits on a floppy disc

27 March 2019

To learn language, we store information about word sounds, syntax and more. It turns out that all this amounts to about 1.5 megabytes of data – just over the size of a floppy disc

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Sorry, but NASA probably isn't sending astronauts to the moon in 2024

All the info our brain needs for language nearly fits on a floppy disc

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