World Solve

Current space stations must re-supply metabolic consumables, water filtration media, and trace contaminant gases from Earth. Fully regenerative bio-synthetic life support systems are essential for long-term lunar and Martian outposts.

Multi-year missions introduce sensory deprivation, communication delays, and high stress among crew members. Biomarker tracking, behavioral software, and crew dynamics protocols are needed to preserve mental health.

Current life support distillation systems build up volatile organics and salts, degrading filtration membranes quickly. Next-generation electrochemical and enzymatic water purification systems are needed.

Medicines used on Earth lose potency rapidly on orbit, endangering astronauts on long multi-year Mars missions. Developing radiation-shielded drug formulations and long-shelf-life stabilizing active compounds is required.

Closed space station biomes combined with radiation select for rapid bacterial mutation, risking astronaut health. Autonomous metagenomic sequencing systems must continuously monitor station surfaces for bio-threats.

Standard Extravehicular Mobility Units vent water into space to keep astronauts cool, depleting habitat reserves. Closed-loop heat pump suits or phase-change cooling garments need to be integrated into next-gen suits.

In Mongolia and Central Asia, winter disaster phenomena ('dzuds') freeze pasturelands, killing millions of livestock and forcing nomadic herders into impoverished urban shantytowns without transition support.

Rising sea surface temperatures trigger massive coral bleaching, threatening marine biodiversity hot-spots that support the livelihoods of millions of coastal residents.

Many parts of the world have extremely few mental health professionals relative to their population, leaving most people with mental health needs entirely unsupported. Solving this requires new models of care delivery, not just more funding.

Many patients with chronic conditions end up back in the hospital shortly after being discharged, often due to gaps in follow-up care rather than a failure of the original treatment. Better post-discharge support remains an unresolved healthcare system issue.

As some regions become less livable due to heat, drought, or flooding, governments often lack a clear, proactive plan for how internal migration should be managed. This leaves affected communities dealing with sudden, poorly supported relocation.

High childcare costs push many parents, disproportionately mothers, out of the workforce entirely or into reduced hours. Making quality childcare broadly affordable remains an unresolved economic and social policy gap.

Overgrazing and development have degraded vast grassland ecosystems worldwide, and restoration efforts remain small compared to the scale of the damage. A more scalable restoration method could recover important habitat and carbon storage.

Detecting a planet in a habitable zone is only a first step, and current tools can't yet confirm whether conditions there truly support advanced life. Refining this picture would sharpen the search for life beyond Earth.

Remittances sent to Indonesia from diaspora communities abroad are subject to high transfer fees, reducing the effective value delivered to recipient households who depend on this income.

Trade deals can boost overall economic growth while still leaving specific groups of workers worse off, often in the same country. A consistent, fair way to support those workers remains politically unresolved.

Tuberculosis remains a major killer in some regions, and drug-resistant strains are becoming harder and more expensive to treat. Slowing this resistance requires both better medicine access and improved treatment adherence support.

Postpartum depression affects many new parents, often going undiagnosed until it significantly affects their wellbeing and their child's early development. Better early prediction could allow support to begin before symptoms take hold.

Many countries are seeing their elderly populations grow faster than their caregiving systems can support, straining families and healthcare systems alike. A scalable, affordable model for elder care remains an unmet need almost everywhere.

Some outer moons hide liquid oceans beneath thick ice, and possibly conditions that could support life. Getting real data from beneath that ice remains a major unsolved engineering and mission challenge.