World Solve

The deep ocean holds vast mineral resources and ecosystems we barely understand, yet no single country has authority over most of it. Without a fair governance system, the deep sea risks being exploited before it's even properly studied.

Known as Goldbach's Conjecture, this simple-sounding statement has been checked for enormous numbers without exception, but never formally proven true for all numbers. It remains one of the oldest unsolved problems in mathematics.

This century-old conjecture predicts a hidden pattern in how prime numbers are distributed, but nobody has ever proven it true. A proof would deepen our understanding of numbers in ways that ripple into cryptography and physics.

Choices made now about climate, debt, and resource use will affect people who don't yet exist and have no voice in the decision. Philosophy hasn't settled how much weight their unheard interests should carry.

When an autonomous system makes a harmful choice, moral responsibility is hard to pin on any single party, the programmer, the company, or the AI itself. Ethics hasn't caught up with the reality of decisions made without direct human involvement.

Gene editing could prevent serious diseases, but it also opens the door to selecting traits that have nothing to do with health. Society hasn't agreed on where prevention ends and something more troubling begins.

As AI systems become more capable, questions about whether they deserve any form of moral consideration are becoming less theoretical. Society has no shared answer for where, if anywhere, that line should be drawn.

In many countries, the cost of a degree has risen far faster than wages, leaving graduates with debt that can take decades to repay. Making education both accessible and affordable remains an unresolved trade-off.

Money hidden in tax havens deprives governments of revenue that could fund schools, hospitals, and infrastructure. Closing these loopholes requires international cooperation that has so far been difficult to achieve.

New industries, especially in tech, often end up dominated by one or two giant companies before regulation catches up. This can shut out competition and innovation before it even has a chance to grow.

As gene editing and synthetic biology become more accessible, so does the risk of these tools being misused, deliberately or accidentally. International cooperation on this has lagged far behind the pace of the science itself.

Diet and exercise advice hasn't solved the obesity epidemic, and the biological reasons weight loss is so hard to sustain remain only partly understood. A deeper understanding could lead to treatments that actually last.

Despite decades of research, battery capacity has improved far more slowly than the power demands of our devices. A real breakthrough here would change how we use and design nearly all portable technology.

Nearly every major hack traces back to a bug that existed long before anyone found it. Catching these flaws before release, rather than after damage is done, remains an unsolved challenge.

Fusion promises nearly limitless clean energy, but every experiment so far has needed more power to run than it generates. Cracking this would end the global energy crisis outright.

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.

United States has too few licensed physicians per capita to staff rural clinics, and existing task-shifting frameworks for nurses and community health workers lack legal clarity, standardized training, and outcome tracking.

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.

Develop cost-effective seismic upgrades, risk prioritization, financing, and phased construction plans that preserve educational continuity.

Dengue surveillance in Brazil is largely retrospective, relying on confirmed case counts reported weeks after transmission has already accelerated, rather than integrating mosquito density, rainfall, and mobility data into a forward-looking model.