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  1. Earth

    Switchgrass may yield biofuel bounty

    Making ethanol from switchgrass yielded more than 5 times more energy than needed to grow the crops in a large-scale farming trial.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Sleep disruption and glucose processing

    Shallow sleep can depress the body's ability to process glucose efficiently.

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  3. Animals

    Butterfly’s clock linked to compass

    The most detailed look yet at the monarch butterfly's daily rhythm keeper suggests it's closer to ancient forms than to the fruit fly's or mouse's inner clock.

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  4. Tech

    Retro RAM

    A prototype memory chip stores data bits using carbon nanotubes as mechanical switches.