Can schools teach antifragility with spirituality?
Kids want to know the meaning of life. Should schools help them find it?
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Just Might Work
Men are finally getting birth control options
Big Pharma won’t invest in male birth control. Meet the scientists doing it themselves.
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Hard Reset
A $75k fantasy house you can build yourself in weeks
Could bringing back ancient pyramid-building techniques make carbon-negative housing a reality?
An open source tool to unlock cures
There are 37 trillion cells in your body. This discovery platform lets scientists map them.
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Just Might Work
The sex workers taking on Mastercard, Visa, and PayPal
Big banks are blocking sex work payments. Is crypto the answer?
Open-source maps are saving the rainforest—and the world
Meet the techno-optimists saving rainforests – and making their solution open source.
“Adaptive WiFi” wants to learn your habits
You’re already living in a smart home – but there’s one thing missing.
Inside Dubai’s solar megaplant
Dubai built the world’s largest single-site solar plant – and it’s just getting started.
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Operation: Reimagine Surgery
What’s transforming the world’s best surgeons?
There are about 48 million surgeries in the U.S. each year, and about 2% have a complication. That’s roughly a million affected patients.
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Challengers
Sniper robot treats 500k plants per hour with 95% less chemicals
This “intelligent sharpshooter” farming robot distinguishes crops from weeds — and it could help feed 10 billion people.
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Hard Reset
The future of high energy density batteries
Picture an entire city charged by batteries. This new battery design may unlock a new era of energy.
How Dubai is building roads in the sky
The Jestons taught us to dream of futuristic cities. Now, Dubai is building one.
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Challengers
Building a Mach-5 engine for hypersonic passenger flight
Hermeus is building the world’s fastest commercial aircraft. And we got to tour their hypersonic flight lab.
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Just Might Work
Waves have massive energy. They could power the planet.
Wave energy has incredible potential – and the Navy is racing to harness it.
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Hard Reset
The robot solving America’s trash crisis
This robot sorts trash with 99% accuracy.
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Just Might Work
Morocco has a doomsday seed vault. We stepped inside.
Deep in the drylands of Morocco, a hidden vault holds the seeds that could save humanity.
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Operation: Reimagine Surgery
The visionaries bringing you the future of surgery
Here’s what it’s like to use a robotic surgical system.
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Challengers
Can this invention fix dirty transportation?
Rather than replacing all semi-trucks on the road, this clip-on device filters 80% of each trucks’ CO2.
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Heretics
Hereticon explained by founder Mike Solana
“The future we want to build is impossible if important ideas are deemed too heretical.”