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Photos courtesy of Commonwealth Media Services <a href="#">_by Sarah Greenblatt _illustration by James Steinberg _photos courtesy of Commonwealth Media Services</a></h4> </dd> <dd> <a href="/article/ten-experiments-to-save-the-earth"> <h3>Ten Experiments to Save the Earth</h3> </a> <h4>Futurists believe advances in science and technology will help humanity evade the worst effects of climate change. Let us hope so. Here are 10 ideas from Drexel scientists that give us hope for the future. Because the No. 1 way to save the planet is to simply start somewhere. <a href="#">illustrations by Ollie Hirst</a></h4> </dd> <dd> <a href="/article/how-to-build-a-lab-in-six-weeks"> <h3>How to Build a Lab in Six Weeks</h3> </a> <h4>Experience, resourcefulness and sheer luck enabled a crew of students and faculty from the College of Medicine to fill an urgent need for COVID testing in Philadelphia early in the pandemic. Now, they’re using their knowledge to build a commercial diagnostics service. <a href="#">_by Alissa Falcone _illustration by Chris Gash</a></h4> </dd> <dd> <a href="/article/putting-the-treat-into-treatment"> <h3>Putting the ‘Treat’ into Treatment</h3> </a> <h4>Move over, Ensure. 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<h3>An Early Test for Lyme</h3> </a> <h4>A prize-winning new test for Lyme disease could help doctors make a speedy diagnosis of the tick-borne disease. <a href="#"></a></h4> </dd> <dd> <a href="/article/finding-early-alzheimers"> <h3>Finding Early Alzheimer’s</h3> </a> <h4>The natural language AI algorithms behind the chatbot program ChatGPT can help doctors spot early Alzheimer’s disease, researchers find. <a href="#"></a></h4> </dd> <dd> <a href="/article/estrogen-and-brain-injury"> <h3>Estrogen and Brain Injury</h3> </a> <h4>Targeting hormones may help alleviate or prevent depression in women and girls with brain injuries. <a href="#"></a></h4> </dd> <dd> <a href="/article/fighting-addiction-stigma"> <h3>Fighting Addiction Stigma</h3> </a> <h4>Students at the College of Medicine are destigmatizing opioid use disorder to improve overdose reversal training and advocate for new treatments. <a href="#">_illustration by Brian Stauffer</a></h4> </dd> </dl> <dl> <dt> <div class="dept-x dept-nature-environment"></div> _Nature / Environment </dt> <dd> <a href="/article/antique-data-confirms-owl-discovery"> <h3>Antique Data Confirms Owl Discovery</h3> </a> <h4>DNA from a 173-year-old museum specimen at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University enabled ornithologists to describe two new species of Brazilian screech owl. <a href="#"></a></h4> </dd> <dd> <a href="/article/safe-skylines-for-birds"> <h3>Safe Skylines for Birds</h3> </a> <h4>Ornithologists are collaborating with companies to monitor and reduce bird collisions with buildings in the Philadelphia region. <a href="#"></a></h4> </dd> <dd> <a href="/article/do-sea-turtles-need-shade"> <h3>Do Sea Turtles Need Shade?</h3> </a> <h4>A technique conservationists use to preserve sea turtle populations could backfire if implemented too broadly. <a href="#"></a></h4> </dd> <dd> <a href="/article/modern-day-dousing-rod"> <h3>Modern-day Dousing Rod</h3> </a> <h4>A patented device uses sound waves to identify lead 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<h4>Fossils found by an amateur paleontologist belonged to a lobe finned, transitional fish that lived in streams and along coastlines some 380 to 360 million years ago. <a href="#"></a></h4> </dd> </dl> <dl> <dt> <div class="dept-x dept-public-health"></div> _Public Health </dt> <dd> <a href="/article/opioid-improvements"> <h3>Opioid Improvements</h3> </a> <h4>Pandemic-era changes to prescribing guidelines for the lifesaving drug buprenorphine led to improved treatment outcomes for patients with opioid use disorder. <a href="#"></a></h4> </dd> <dd> <a href="/article/hug-tree-have-granola"> <h3>Hug Tree, Have Granola</h3> </a> <h4>Add healthy eating to the list of ways that nature is good for us. <a href="#"></a></h4> </dd> <dd> <a href="/article/five-minute-autism-diagnosis"> <h3>Five-Minute Autism Diagnosis</h3> </a> <h4>Seasoned clinicians can usually spot autism within the first five minutes of meeting a child, a finding that opens the door to fast-tracked interventions. <a 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