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* NASA announces lunar base plan: The space agency has announced plans to build a permanent lunar base by 2024. http://www.world-science.net/othernews/061204_lunar-base.htm * City birds sing their own tune: Members of a bird species that have adapted to city life sing a shorter, sharper, faster song than their forest kin, a study has found. http://www.world-science.net/othernews/061204_city-bird.htm * Hard, brutal lives for Neanderthals: Neanderthal remains from Spain speak of malnutrition and possible cannibalism, researchers report. http://www.world-science.net/othernews/061204_neanderthal.htm * Gene "archaeology" sheds light on male pregnancy: A gene might help explain why males get pregnant among members of the seahorse family, according to biologists. http://www.world-science.net/othernews/061203_male-pregnancy.htm * Oldest known ritual: python worship, archaeologist says: Snake-worship in Stone-Age Africa might have been the first human ritual, if new findings are correct. http://www.world-science.net/othernews/061130_python.htm *************************************************** NOTICE: some subscription/cancellation requests sent to us last weekend were lost due to a tech- nical error. We apologize. Please re-send them if you did not get a response. Invite friends to join World Science for free! Do your friends or colleagues a favor. Just click here to open an invitation email you can send them so they can join you in subscribing to World Science at no charge. Feel free to change the email text (although you might want to leave the subscription instructions unchanged.) This is the World Science newsletter. To cancel your subscription, please reply to this email address with "cancel" in the subject line. To subscribe, write to this email address with "subscribe" in the subject line. To change the address where you receive the newsletter, please write to this email address and request the change. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
