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How to Save the World, Part 1

Academy of Natural Sciences

From their respective disciplines, they’re converting industrial food waste into plastic, building electric vehicle batteries with domestic materials and helping vulnerable citizens adapt to extreme weather, to name a few. Each project is exciting in its potential and gives us hope for the future, because the No.

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Drinking Water and Disease: The strange partners that shaped Philadelphia

Academy of Natural Sciences

From the complex, grueling efforts of science to understand and prevent COVID to the political aftershocks that continue to shake the world, we have learned how a single pathogen can disrupt normal life and sow chaos. There is nothing new, however, about a disease causing social and political change.