Glow-worm

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• Driven to dangerous distraction
• Pioneer of organic chemistry
• Anticancer properties of silver birch
• Secrets of spider silk revealed
• Finland’s most famous chemist
• Traditional wormers in the 21st century
• A physicist who defied the Nazis
• Aspects of mixed-handedness
• The hazelnut as an antitumour agent
• Continuing dangers of asbestos
• Getting a good night’s sleep
• Benefits and dangers of the broad bean
• Palladium’s uses in health care
• A new look at an ancient disease
• Anton Chekhov’s “wife” and “mistress”
• De Quincey and attitudes to opium
• Dangers of eating anchovies
• A world free of smallpox for 30 years
• Giving your will power a work-out
• The 13-year revolutionary calendar
• Harnessing the healing power of beetroot
• Brunel's unsung contribution to medicine
• Pineapple weed and its uses
• What is the purpose of sleep?
• Tennyson and attitudes to opium
• The return of the rat catcher
• Turmeric: hope in Alzheimer’s disease?
• New research demonstrates the health benefits of music therapy
• Was Charles Darwin a reluctant homoeopath?
• Cattle as compasses?
• Why did the toad cross the road?
• Pierre Curie: almost a pharmacist
• Comfrey and its bone-setting properties
• How green was my funeral?
• Pet health and passive smoking
• Sphagnum moss and the 1914–18 war
• J. C. Reil, psychiatrist and visionary
• Rewriting cell membrane theory
• The crocus — reasons to be cheerful
• Christmas trees trigger asthma
• Poinsettia, the flower of the Holy Night
• Carrots for Rudolph or mince pies?
• Why the price of helium is ballooning
• Lactic acid found to have a role as a brain fuel
• Uses of the golden gorse
• Could the dog-rose be a cure for arthritis?
• Nelson: a hero despite sickness and injury
• Windows that purify air
• 125 years ago — the loudest bang in history
• Luminous shellfish aids British Olympic team
• Visual benefits of bilberry