Today’s Solutions: December 16, 2025

Meet John Dabiri, a 35-year old tenured professor at Stanford who’s unlocking the secrets of the jellyfish to solve big human problems. By studying jellyfish, Dabiri has learned some rather interesting stuff, like how to detect heart failure years in advance and how to build unmanned submarines that, according to the Navy, are 30 percent more efficient. See here how Dabiri is getting is taking his studies of jellyfish out of the laboratory and into the hands of the people who need it most.

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