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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Two forces are reshaping the same future.
The obscure chip policy that could reshape US-China competition.
The end of mandatory shoe removal signals progress on airport security.
Musk trained Grok to be right wing. We’re lucky he wasn’t more subtle.
Switzerland’s new experiment will treat meat-packaging like cigarette warnings.
AI could make bioweapons more dangerous. It could also be the key to stopping them.
When the world is on fire, meditation feels selfish. But it can help you do good better.
The cardiac miracles that have saved millions of American lives.
The strongest defense can be summed up in just two words.
It’s okay to hate AI’s encroachment into work. Learn to use it anyway.
A bill that will give China the lead in the race for advanced AI.
This new telescope lets you hold 10 million galaxies in your hand.
The world’s war on child death was going well. Then RFK Jr. came along.
Despite all the problems with meat, Americans are only eating more and more of it. Could this change people’s minds?
How to not torture ChatGPT and Claude’s successors.
For people with OCD, reassurance can be harmful. ChatGPT provides an infinite supply.
Are gadgets like Apple Watches and Oura Rings making us any healthier?
To save the humanities, we need to rethink our assumptions about AI — and education.
The problem with pancreata.
A completely necessary climate villain.
Academia has gotten philosophical about AI. But they should focus more on what it can do.
“I should have thought of this 10 years ago,” Yoshua Bengio says.
Too bad it’s now sabotaging it.
Everyone wants to be a girl dad now.
The tech right saw in Trump what they wanted to see, but it wasn’t actually there
The world’s “most controversial” food additive, explained.
And that’s not even Apple’s biggest problem right now
Republicans are gutting the safety net as job-killing mass automation looms.
What to do when your partner wants an open marriage and you don’t.
The quiet revolutions that have prevented millions of cancer deaths.
Artificial intelligence could weaponize the data we’ve been sharing for decades.
What to know about the tech giant’s growing biometric business.
What slaughtering animals all day does to your mind.
Our economy isn’t built for the biological clock. But it can be.
From disaster warnings to drug development, how AI is generating real-world wins.
A step forward in academia’s existential fight against scientific fraud.
When animal cruelty trumps capitalism.
The real cost of forcing foreign students away from elite universities like Harvard.
The search giant’s midlife crisis is now your problem.
Do we need apartment buildings to have two staircases?