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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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Traditional credentials are too slow for rapidly changing technical work, while unverified short courses create noise. Future education needs trustworthy, modular, employer-connected, and worker-controlled skill validation. The solution must work with limited capital, intermittent services, and local maintenance capacity. The research opportunity is to define measurable success criteria, test the approach in realistic settings, identify failure modes, and create a pathway from prototype to accountable deployment.
social-civic-problems
training
systems
update
faster
occupations
change
low-income
communities
work
create
technology-computing
economics-resources
climate-environment
society-governance
quantum
infrastructure
science-space
open
Global / Unspecified, Global
The solar wind strips away atmospheres from unmagnetized planets like Mars, but how it reaches supersonic speeds is unclear. Close-orbit solar probes and plasma simulations are needed to resolve acceleration dynamics.
climate-environment
global-unspecified
solar
wind
plasma
mechanism
accelerates
millions
remains
unverified
strips
away
whether
haven
philosophy-ethics
science-space
small
energy
open
Global / Unspecified, Global
While microgravity (0g) is well-studied, long-term multi-generational plant reproduction under lunar (0.16g) or Martian (0.38g) gravity is unverified. Long-term surface greenhouse experiments are urgently needed.
mathematics-logic
global-unspecified
long-term
gravity
plant
not
know
biological
effects
fractional
growth
seed
long
term
systems
whether
society-governance
philosophy-ethics
