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World Solve is a public institutional repository for identifying real unresolved problems across science, society, health, governance, economics, and local systems. Each entry is intended to be citable, inspectable, and actionable.
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Global / Unspecified, Global
Solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and stellar winds shape atmospheric escape and habitability, yet models remain approximate. Continuous monitoring and improved magnetohydrodynamic simulations can refine predictions.
science-space
global-unspecified
space
weather
effects
planetary
atmospheres
not
fully
quantified
solar
flares
know
climate-environment
continuous
understand
dark
open
Global / Unspecified, Global
Carrington-level space weather events can destroy global electrical grids, communication satellites, and orbital stations. Advanced space-based magnetometers and AI predictive models are required for early warning systems.
science-space
global-unspecified
cannot
reliably
predict
solar
coronal
mass
ejections
breach
earth
magnetosphere
systems
climate-environment
space
weather
infrastructure
society-governance
open
United States, North America
The Coronal Heating Problem violates intuition: the outer solar atmosphere reaches millions of degrees while the surface is ~5,500°C. Solving this requires understanding magnetic reconnection and Alfvén wave dissipation mechanisms.
climate-environment
north-america
united-states
solar
surface
corona
thousands
times
hotter
sun
don
know
coronal
global-unspecified
whether
philosophy-ethics
determine
mathematics-logic
open
Global / Unspecified, Global
Solar flares release massive kinetic and radiation energy, disrupting global High-Frequency radio and GPS signals. Micro-scale magnetic reconnection models are needed to predict flares hours before they burst.
climate-environment
global-unspecified
flares
solar
release
exact
physical
trigger
explosive
coronal
plasma
unconfirmed
science-space
haven
whether
fully
reliably
predict
