Solutions & Sustainability

Three ideas could help create the police force that Americans want.

A socially minded franchise model makes money while improving society.

An unconventional solution to the problem of violence.

While we can see many solar storms coming, some are “stealthy.” A new study shows how to detect them.

The ethical debate over zoos is going to grow louder. There might be a solution that involves robots.

Nearly 90% of the world’s blind live in low-income countries.

A new study mapped areas of the U.S. that are most likely to suffer natural disasters.

Our program lowers reincarceration rates by 44 percent.

A team of biohackers is on a David-versus-Goliath mission to make insulin affordable to an increasing number of diabetics.

The fully functional plant will serve to demo TerraPower’s nuclear tech.

Buildings don’t have to be permanent — modular construction can make them modifiable and relocatable.

As droughts threaten water supplies across the planet, some municipalities aim to utilize an untapped resource: sewage water.

We have pipelines for oil and natural gas. Why not water?

A new agricultural revolution could forever change the planet.

It’s time to rethink how satellites and other objects are made and eventually destroyed.

Since 1957, the world’s space agencies have been polluting the space above us with countless pieces of junk, threatening our technological infrastructure and ability to venture deeper into space.

The US prison system continues to fail, so why does it still exist?

Researchers find that the coffee pulp is valuable in its own right.

Growing marijuana in large, climate controlled warehouses is good for production but has a massive carbon footprint.

Their success is based on us adopting a plant-based diet, too.

The present-moment awareness that stems from mindfulness practices may be the cost-effective tool that our society needs.

By 2050, there may be more plastic than fish in the sea.

In May 2018, the city of Paris set an ambition to be carbon-neutral by 2050.

While not the first such minister, the loneliness epidemic in Japan will make this one the hardest working.

Can biomaterials help finally thrust perovskite solar cells to mainstream adoption?

In a joint briefing at the 101st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, NASA and NOAA revealed 2020’s scorching climate data.

A fairly old idea, but a really good one, is about to hit the store shelves.