World Solve

According to our best theories, matter and antimatter should have destroyed each other completely after the Big Bang. Yet matter clearly won out, and we still don't know why.

Thousands of pieces of space junk are already circling the planet, threatening satellites and future missions. Left unresolved, orbit could become too cluttered and risky to safely launch into.

Gravity should be pulling everything together over time, yet distant galaxies are accelerating away from each other. This mystery, blamed on dark energy, remains one of the biggest open questions in physics.

Dark matter and dark energy make up roughly ninety five percent of the universe, yet we've never directly detected either. Everything we can see and touch is a small fraction of what's really out there.

Gravity describes the large scale universe well, and quantum mechanics describes the tiny scale well, but the two don't fit together mathematically. A unified theory would finally explain what happens inside black holes and at the birth of the universe.

Every search so far has come back empty, but our tools for detecting distant life are still crude. Knowing the answer would reshape biology, philosophy, and how we think about our place in the universe.

Rapid urban growth in Indonesia has produced large informal settlements lacking basic infrastructure, and in-place upgrading approaches remain rare compared to displacement-driven redevelopment models.

A persistent gap exists in realizing practical, scalable solutions for pathways for achieving high rates of material circularity in the construction sector. Scientific understanding, engineering readiness and institutional capacity remain insufficient to translate promising concepts into durable impact under real-world constraints of cost, skills and governance.

Design systems that remain usable for people with limited literacy, disability, low connectivity, language barriers, or insecure documentation. The challenge is especially acute in remote island communities, where existing solutions often assume stable institutions, high incomes, continuous connectivity, or centralized service delivery.

Create safe, affordable, shelf-stable alternatives or complements to donated blood for trauma, obstetric emergencies, and disaster settings.

Develop equitable clinical, laboratory, telemedicine, and data-sharing pathways that shorten diagnostic odysseys without requiring centralized high-cost sequencing.

Assess when and how neglected rail lines can be rehabilitated for low-carbon freight, regional development, and resilient transport.

Develop practical alternatives to diesel for small trucks, boats, and last-mile vehicles serving dispersed rural communities.

Develop mechanisms that address mine-level income, safety, child labor, local consent, and environmental damage rather than relying only on paperwork audits.

Teach children to navigate privacy, scams, manipulation, harmful content, and online identity when shared phones and limited supervision are common.

Create restoration programs that improve coastal protection and carbon storage without excluding local fishers from traditional access and livelihoods.

Create predictive maintenance and equipment-upgrade strategies for overloaded local grids serving growing cities and newly electrified rural areas.

Design repair financing, local spare-parts networks, remote diagnostics, and accountability models that keep water points functional after initial projects end.

Develop restoration models that reduce emissions and fire risk while providing viable incomes for communities dependent on drained peatland agriculture.

Identify and preserve the habitats, flowering cycles, and landscape corridors needed to sustain native pollinators amid expanding roads, housing, and monoculture farming.