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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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open
Global / Unspecified, Global
By 2040, editing tools and gene drives could reshape ecosystems or be misused to create dangerous pathogens. Governance frameworks, secure design pipelines, and ethics review infrastructures are needed.
philosophy-ethics
global-unspecified
editing
synthetic
biology
genome
will
raise
complex
biosecurity
ethical
2040
society-governance
governance
mathematics-logic
frameworks
use
open
Global / Unspecified, Global
Ultra-processed foods, changing agriculture, and altered gut microbiota may fuel future epidemics of obesity and metabolic disease. Microbiome-targeted therapies and nutrition-policy analytics will be important.
health-biology
global-unspecified
will
metabolic
food-system
transformations
reshape
human
microbiomes
health
ultra-processed
foods
climate-environment
new
society-governance
technology-computing
food
system
open
United Kingdom, Europe
Europe must support Ukraine while rebuilding its own defence posture and replacing Russian energy imports, all under fiscal and political constraints. Defence-industrial coordination platforms and grid-optimization tools are key areas for innovation.
mathematics-logic
europe
united-kingdom
ukraine
energy
war
continues
reshape
european
security
systems
variant
focuses
society-governance
climate-environment
data
technology-computing
infrastructure
open
United States, North America
Almost all current reusable rocket technology is built for missions close to Earth, while deep space missions still rely on expensive, largely disposable hardware. Extending reusability further out could reshape space exploration economics.
science-space
north-america
united-states
reusable
earth
yet
build
affordable
spacecraft
capable
routine
trips
beyond
global-unspecified
whether
philosophy-ethics
mathematics-logic
space
open
Global / Unspecified, Global
Known as the P versus NP problem, this asks whether problems whose solutions are easy to verify are also easy to find in the first place. Answering it would reshape computer science, cryptography, and optimization overnight.
mathematics-logic
global-unspecified
easy
whether
also
don
know
every
math
check
solve
known
philosophy-ethics
haven
resolved
possible
open
Global / Unspecified, Global
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.
philosophy-ethics
global-unspecified
life
have
never
proven
whether
exists
anywhere
beyond
earth
our
resolved
know
haven
mathematics-logic
possible
don
Build locally actionable models of how warming, rainfall, urbanization, immunity, and mobility reshape mosquito- and tick-borne disease risks.
climate-environment
africa
east-africa
disease
understanding
climate
effects
vector-borne
range
shifts
build
locally
actionable
health-biology
society-governance
global-unspecified
whether
non
