Solutions & Sustainability

With sea levels rising, the Dutch are pondering floating cities — while also exporting their engineering know-how to turn a tidy profit.

The “Euro Night Sprinter” map is utopian, but Europe’s rail future could look a lot like it.

In an excerpt from her recent book, the behavior geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden carefully explores a topic that’s often considered taboo: how genetics affect life outcomes.

Solving the supply chain crisis before the global economy tanks is going to require many creative approaches. Flexport’s Ryan Petersen has one that just might work.

Start fighting back against planned obsolescence.

After the 2011 Fukushima disaster, it was Germany, not Japan, that cracked down most severely on nuclear power plants.

Donate a kidney now, and your loved one will have priority status if they need one later.

It is difficult to save a species that does not seem to care about saving itself.

Hospitals often deal with the aftermath of gun violence, but they can play a key role in preventing it.

The Seychelles magpie-robin is up for sale – yes, for sale – as a digital nature collectible.

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.