Weak US retail sales, manufacturing output point to softening economy
By Reuters Published June 18, 2025 U.S. retail sales dropped more than expected in May,…
Enceladus’s ocean may be even better for life than we realised
Plumes of ice particles, water vapour and organic molecules spray from Enceladus’s south polar region NASA/JPL-Caltech The liquid water ocean hidden underneath the icy crust of Enceladus has long made this moon of Saturn one of the best prospects in the hunt for extraterrestrial life – and it just got even more promising. The discovery…
Introducing structured output for Custom Model Import in Amazon Bedrock
With Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import, you can deploy and scale fine-tuned or proprietary foundation models in a fully managed, serverless environment. You can bring your own models into Amazon Bedrock, scale them securely without managing infrastructure, and integrate them with other Amazon Bedrock capabilities. Today, we are excited to announce the addition of structured…
The 2025 MAPIC Awards celebrate 30 years of innovation in commercial property
Published November 7, 2025 The Mapic Awards 2025 took place in Cannes this week, from November 4 to 5, as part of the Mapic trade fair, the world’s leading event for commercial real estate professionals. For the first time, the ceremony was staged in the Grand Auditorium, a symbolic venue chosen to mark this anniversary…
Stéphane Rolland debuts first scent ‘Henry Jacques,’ as couturier opens new Paris HQ
Published November 7, 2025 Few couturiers have more momentum than Stéphane Rolland, who has just debuted his first scent, created in partnership with haute niche perfumer Henry Jacques. Stéphane Rolland’s foray into fragrance – Parfums Henry Jacques The uber discreet launch comes as Rolland puts the finishing touches to his new Paris HQ, a fresh…
Galderma announces US FDA approval of its ‘Restylane Lyft with Lidocaine’
Published November 7, 2025 Dermatology business Galderma has announced that the US’s Food and Drug Administration has approved its ‘Restylane Lyft with Lidocaine’ product, designed for chin augmentation and to improve the chin profile in patients over the age of 21 with mild-to-moderate chin retrusion. Galderma offers a range of HA injectables – Reuters “This…
A distant galaxy is being strangled by the cosmic web
Simulation of the large scale structure of a galaxy cluster Illustris Collaboration/ESO The cosmic web is killing a galaxy. Galaxies can only continue to form stars when they are full of gas, and one dwarf galaxy nearly 100 million light years away is being stripped of its stellar fuel by the enormous web of matter…
CERN creates cosmic “fireballs” that could reveal the Universe’s hidden magnetism
An international group of researchers led by the University of Oxford has achieved a world-first by generating plasma “fireballs” with the Super Proton Synchrotron accelerator at CERN in Geneva. Their goal was to investigate how plasma jets from distant blazars remain stable as they travel through space. The team’s results, published on November 3 in…
South Africa’s online shopping boom seen defying weak demand
By Bloomberg Published November 7, 2025 South Africa’s appetite for buying clothes, food, and fridges online is likely to defy weak consumer spending as e-commerce grows by as much 50% in the next year, according to the head of local apparel retailer The Foschini Group Ltd. Foschini is an omni-channel fashion and lifestyle platform –…
Slow Gods review: Deep-space sci-fi novel is delightful, profound and not to be missed
It’s bad luck for those living on Adjumir, which is set to be obliterated DETLEV VAN RAVENSWAAY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Slow GodsClaire North, Orbit Claire North is a successful and prolific novelist, writing under three separate names, but this is their first shift into classic science fiction, i.e. a novel with spaceships in it. I loved…
Black hole blast outshines 10 trillion Suns
The Universe’s most massive stars typically end their lives in spectacular explosions known as supernovae before collapsing into black holes. But one enormous star seems to have met a very different fate. Instead of exploding, it strayed too close to an immense black hole, which tore it apart and consumed it piece by piece. That…
