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Can citizen science empower disenfranchised communities?

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imageFlint, Michigan residents couldn't get answers about their water – so they did their own research.Laura Nawrocik, CC BY-NC-ND

Early in 2015, a group calling itself the Nappy Science Gang hit the parenting scene in the U.K. It was made up of moms and dads who used cloth nappies – or diapers – with their kids, and wanted to know the...

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