Meet ANDI, the world’s sweatiest mannequin. Although he might look like a shop-floor stalwart from a distance, a closer glance reveals bundles of cabling and pipework concealed beneath his shell. He’s wired up with sensors, plumbed into a liquid supply, and dotted with up to 150 individual pores that open when he gets warm. It … Read more
There’s no denying it: Farming had a rough year. Extreme weather spun up storms and floods, unseasonal freezes and baking heat waves, and prolonged parching droughts. In parts of the world in 2023, tomato plants didn’t flower, the peach crop never came in, and the price of olive oil soared. To be a farmer right … Read more
The marketing campaign was a lasting success, even a century later. Last year, the global deodorant market was valued at $24 billion, and it’s on track to grow to $37 billion by the end of the decade, in part because of global warming, according to the market research firm Fortune Business Insights. Today, some cultures … Read more
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“These fire-prone invasive species fill in any gaps wherever else—roadsides, in between communities, in between individuals’s properties, everywhere,” Elizabeth Pickett, co-executive director of the Hawaii Wildfire Administration Group, informed WIRED final week. “At this level, 26 p.c of our state is roofed in these fire-prone grasses.” Not solely has a lot of Maui been in … Read more