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Eradicating Guinea worm disease

Health & Medicine

Global efforts to eradicate Guinea worm disease close to success, but cases still exist in Southern Sudan.

Twanging and Twickling with the World’s Best Worm Charmers

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‘Worms from Hell’

Environment
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Lovely Earthworms!

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Worm Grunters

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Emerging Science Note/Long Life

Scientists alter the genes of worms and double their life span, making them look and act younger.

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Emerging Science Note/Long Life

Scientists alter the genes of worms and double their life span, making them look and act younger.

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Emerging Science Note/Sex & the Single Worm

Living on Earth’s Maggie Villiger reports on the way radioactive pollution is changing the sex lives of worms near Chernobyl.

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Health Note/De-worming RX

Living on Earth’s Diane Toomey reports on a possible new source for a drug to treat the millions of animals and humans infected with parasitic worms.

The Living on Earth Almanac

This week, facts about the World’s Worm Charming Championships in Willaston, England. Contestants have half an hour to charm the most worms out of the ground.

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