Every week on What’s Your Problem, entrepreneurs and engineers talk about the future they’re trying
This is the second of three episodes about the solar-power revolution. Last week, we talked about ho
In the past 20 years, the price of solar panels has fallen by more than 97 percent. This extraordina
Paul Reichert is a research scientist at Merck, working on improvements to how we administer drugs t
Hannah Ritchie is a data scientist and the deputy editor of Our World in Data. She is also the autho
Why has rabies invaded our nightmares for centuries? Author and veterinarian Monica Murphy tells us
After decades of research, gene therapy is starting to work. Shannon Boye is a professor of cellular
*Or at least, sort of bringing back mammoths and dodos.Beth Shapiro is the chief scientific officer
The elevator made the modern city possible: No elevators, no skyscrapers. Today, people are working
The invention of synthetic fertilizer was one of the key breakthroughs of the 20th century. It’s the
Jennifer Holmgren is the CEO of LanzaTech. Her problem is this: How do you capture pollution from fa
Moving from fossil fuels to renewable energy will require huge amounts of copper, lithium, and other
Dalial Freitak and Annette Kleiser are the co-founders of Dalan Animal Health, a company that has br
Sean Hunt is the co-founder and CTO of Solugen, a company that sells around $100 million a year of i
Refrigeration is an underrated technology. It completely transformed what billions of people eat eve
As generative AI tools improve, it is becoming easier to digitally manipulate content and harder to
Aluminum is the most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust. It’s cheap, ubiquitous, and surprisingly e
Sarah Rudd is the co-founder and CEO of the soccer analytics company src | ftbl (It’s pronounced “So
Jimmy Buffi is the CEO and co-founder of Reboot Motion, which uses biomechanics to help athletes in
On the next few episodes of What's Your Problem, Jacob Goldstein is talking with people working at t
Laura Niklason is the co-founder and CEO of Humacyte. Laura's problem is this: How can you use human
