Published October 5, 2025 Japan’s leading fashion houses once again made a major splash at Paris Fashion Week on Saturday, as evidenced on the sixth day of the women’s ready-to-wear shows for spring-summer 2026 by three of the country’s most emblematic labels: Junya Watanabe, Noir by designer Kei Ninomiya, and Comme des Garçons. On the…
Daniela RelphSenior royal correspondent PA Media The Prince of Wales will travel to Rio de Janeiro next month for the Earthshot Prize ceremony – the first time the awards have been hosted in Latin America. Earthshot, created by Prince William five years ago, awards £1m every year to five projects for their environmental innovations. There…
By Ansa Published October 4, 2025 There is a glimmer of hope in the Yoox case: the company has suspended with immediate effect the collective redundancy procedure for 211 employees, which had been announced in recent weeks as part of the reorganisation plan initiated by the online shopping company’s new owners. Yoox Yoox has heeded…
Published October 4, 2025 Paris Fashion Week entered its fifth day with an especially intense programme. In particular, the womenswear ready-to-wear shows for Spring/Summer 2026 revealed designers’ pursuit of freshness and lightness. Leonard Paris and Giambattista Valli were prime examples. Vetements, for its part, opted for provocation. See fashion showLeonard Paris, Spring-Summer 2026 – ©Launchmetrics/spotlight…
If you happen to be walking in the forests of Panama, you might just come across a bug that will wave at you, which scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) have been studying for a while. The matador bug (Bitta alipes) carries striking, reddish “flags” on its hind legs and performs an intricate…
In a world-first, researchers from the Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have directly observed the evolution of the elusive dark excitons in atomically thin materials, laying the foundation for new breakthroughs in both classical and quantum information technologies. Their findings have been published in Nature Communications. Professor Keshav…
A Swedish-led research team at Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital has shown in a new randomized clinical trial that a low dose of the well-known medicine aspirin halves the risk of recurrence after surgery in patients with colon and rectal cancer with a certain type of genetic alteration in the tumor. Every year, nearly…
Astronomers have identified an enormous ‘growth spurt’ in a so-called rogue planet. Unlike the planets in our Solar System, these objects do not orbit stars, free-floating on their own instead. The new observations, made with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), reveal that this free-floating planet is eating up gas and dust…
Scientists have unveiled a new approach to detecting gravitational waves in the milli-Hertz frequency range, providing access to astrophysical and cosmological phenomena that are not detectable with current instruments. Gravitational waves—ripples in spacetime predicted by Einstein—have been observed at high frequencies by ground-based interferometers such as LIGO and Virgo, and at ultra-low frequencies by pulsar…
Published October 3, 2025 In a day that descended into dirty teeming rainy, Paris was treated to four memorable collection by five non-French designers: American Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough’s debut at Loewe, Harris Reed at Nina Ricci, Sarah Burton at Givenchy and Victoria Beckham. Loewe: The American friends debut with brio Another day, another…
