Future Perfect
Finding the best ways to do good. Check out our 2025 Future Perfect 25 list, which presents 25 changemakers who are innovating and implementing ways to keep making progress on global health and development.
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Government support is essential to science. The Trump administration kneecapped it.
Trump wants to “unleash American energy.” What does that mean?
And four other burning bird flu questions, answered.
The company’s Stargate project will create lots of opportunities. But not for humans.
A sickening stench and hordes of flies: What it’s like to live near a mega factory farm.
The Los Angeles wildfires show the influence of humanity in the world — and our inability to control it.
The global fight against HIV is at a perilous tipping point.
My extreme self-sacrifice is making me resent my friends who fly all the time.
We have two vaccines now. What’s the hold up?
The real reason Musk, Zuckerberg, and Bezos are supporting Trump.
The administration’s biggest achievement is something that almost no one has heard about.
Will the state’s fire mismanagement finally force Californians to demand better?
Here’s how to decide where to donate your money, time, and stuff.
The future of the state depends on how leaders rebuild after the Los Angeles fires.
How to help — and how not to — in the aftermath of a natural disaster.
Cuts to science spending may save lab animals — at a cost.
The science behind why we think the past was better than the present.
US climate policy has led to a surge in manure-based “biogas.” Critics say it’s propping up factory farming.
So what happened to that wall AI was supposed to hit?
Los Angeles is home to a diverse ecosystem of animals. Now their lives and homes are at risk.
Despite being reviled by just about everyone.
And other practical meditation questions, answered.
Want to learn how to meditate? Scientists have a new theory that might change how you practice.
The anti-tobacco playbook could help turn the US public against their beloved oversized cars.
I tried to make the perfect moral choice every time. It eroded my humanity.
Why we won’t cause a mirror bacteria apocalypse — thanks to science.
From tariffs and a Trump/Elon break-up to artificial general intelligence, here’s what could happen in 2025, according to the Future Perfect team.
The 24 forecasts we made in 2024, revisited.
From strip mall conversions to adult dorms, here are our favorites from this year.
Without enough houses for its growing homeless population, the city is using machine learning to make its process fairer.
An intervention to reduce child mortality may accelerate drug resistance.
It wasn’t the easiest year, but 2024 was not without its bright spots.
Why young people are getting cancer, problems with OpenAI, and the little intelligence agency that could.
She’s an expert in funny, but her relationship with rabbits is very serious.
Coverage of the latest nutrition buzzword is overly broad, arbitrary, and wildly misleading. The problem goes deeper.
How being a doctor in America compares to other countries.
Thousands of people were convinced they were seeing drone swarms. Get used to it.
The Taiwan invasion everyone fears might never happen. Here’s what could take place instead.
You don’t have to shy away from argument and persuasion. Here’s how to do it right.
The stories that will endure from a wild year.