A few newly-announced NASA funded projects, including one to build a radio telescope in a crater on the moon. A Welsh farmer shares his secrets to ultimate contentment. And can machine learning help us understand what whales are saying to one another?

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• Groundbreaking effort launched to decode whale language (National Geographic)
• NASA Selects Innovative, Early-Stage Tech Concepts for Continued Study (NASA JPL)
• Experience: I’ve had the same supper for 10 years (The Guardian)
• Russia mulls withdrawing from the International Space Station after 2024 (Science Mag)
• NASA Updates Launch Date, TV Coverage for Crew-2 Mission (NASA)
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