Every week on What’s Your Problem, entrepreneurs and engineers talk about the future they’re trying
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This week on Risky Business, Nate and Maria discuss whether Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor sh
Tim Harford is joined by Jacob Goldstein to answer your questions. Does winning the lottery make you
Palm oil is a cheap and remarkably versatile vegetable oil. It’s in a ton of products, from food to
Last year, the FDA approved a treatment for sickle cell disease using a revolutionary new gene editi
Robert Langer has co-founded dozens of companies, holds over a thousand patents, and is a pioneering
Mateo Jaramillo is the co-founder and CEO of Form Energy. Mateo’s problem is this: How do you build
This March, doctors successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a person for the first time in histo
Imagine picking up your phone and ordering something from Walmart. Fifteen minutes later, a drone ho
Psychedelics are going mainstream. The FDA has approved ketamine for certain patients with depressio
Kai Marshland is the co-founder and chief product officer at WindBorne Systems. Kai's problem is thi
Jonathan Hurst is a professor at Oregon State University, and co-founder and chief robot officer at
What does sickness sound like? Sometimes it’s obvious, like a cough, sniffle, or stuffy nose. But so
Cement is, almost literally, everywhere. It is extraordinarily useful, which is why humanity makes 4
Sam D'Amico is the founder and CEO of Impulse Labs, a company that makes induction stoves, with a cl
Tim Ellis is the co-founder and CEO of Relativity Space, a company with a unique approach to manufac
Every year in the U.S., tens of thousands of hospital patients die of preventable causes. For many o
Gia Schneider is the co-founder and CEO of Natel Energy, a company that is trying to transform the w
Peter Chen is the co-founder and CEO of Covariant. Peter’s problem is this: How do you take the AI b
Fei-Fei Li is a Stanford computer scientist and the former chief scientist of artificial intelligenc
