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  1. Smart shoppers use unconscious tactics

    Consumers make better decisions about major purchases if they heed the power of their unconscious minds.

    By Bruce Bower
  2. Astronomy

    Tiny planet orbits faraway star

    Taking advantage of some gravitational sleight of hand, astronomers have found indirect evidence of the smallest planet known to exist outside the solar system.

    By Ron Cowen
  3. Earth

    Species-aid budget looks fishy

    State and federal governments spent $1.4 billion in 2004 on conserving endangered and threatened species, with one-third of that sum going to protect fish.

    By Janet Raloff
  4. Health & Medicine

    Study upgrades protons’ risk to DNA

    Proton radiation causes worse breaks in DNA than researchers had expected.