Published September 10, 2025 Puig, a Spanish group focused on high-end fashion, perfumery, and cosmetics, is reinforcing its structure and incorporating the figure of deputy CEO into its organizational chart. The company has entrusted this newly created role to José Manuel Albesa, a company executive who has been with the company since 1998. José Manuel…
As an educator for over two decades and a parent of a second grader, I’m encouraged by how new AI-powered tools can address many of the daily challenges I once faced in the classroom. Of course, the ability to use these new tools to effectively support learning outcomes requires training. At Google, we believe it’s…
Published September 10, 2025 Calvin Klein joins Rosalía in its new campaign. The American brand has chosen the Spanish singer, author of “El mal querer” and “Motomami,” as the face of its underwear collection for this fall. Calvin Klein (Carlijn Jacobs) Photographed by Carlijn Jacobs, the campaign “fuses bold sensuality with a surreal visual narrative,”…
Scientists have confirmed that East Antarctica’s interior is warming faster than its coastal areas and identified the cause. A 30-year study, published in Nature Communications and led by Nagoya University’s Naoyuki Kurita, has traced this warming to increased warm air flow triggered by temperature changes in the Southern Indian Ocean. Previously considered an observation “blind…
Among the tiniest living things in the ocean are a group of single celled microbes called Prochlorococcus. They are cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, and they supply nutrients for animals all the way up the food chain. Over 75% of surface waters teem with Prochlorococcus, but as ocean temperatures rise, researchers fear that the…
Published September 10, 2025 Asak&Co, a Bussolengo-based company founded in 1992 by sisters Barbara and Sonia Dalla Rosa, has been awarded the distribution on the Italian market for the men’s and women’s footwear brand Vionic, owned by Caleres, a $3-billion U.S. group that acquired Stuart Weitzman from Tapestry last February. Vionic, S/S 2026 – FNW/LG…
The spread of species beyond their native habitat is a human-made environmental change on a global scale. Among vascular plants, over 16,000 species have now permanently settled in foreign countries. The majority of these “naturalizations” has taken place since the 1950s and predominantly in regions with considerable human influence. Naturalized alien plants, also known as…
Flathead catfish, opportunistic predators native to the Mississippi River basin, have the potential to decimate native and recreational fisheries, disrupting ecosystems in rivers where they become established after their introduction or invasion from a nearby river drainage. That concern led a team of researchers from Penn State, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and the Pennsylvania…
Published September 10, 2025 Swedish clothing giant H&M continues to move upmarket with premium retail concepts. Following the inauguration a few days ago of a new concept store in the Marais district of Paris for its flagship H&M brand, the group is opening a COS boutique on the world’s most beautiful avenue until February. The…
Published September 9, 2025 Barbour has made a speciality of collaborations in recent years, linking up with as diverse a list as Chloé, Saturdays NYC, Alexa Chung, Baracuta, and Reggie Yates. Its latest collab is with another label very different from its own — Farm Rio. DR Launching on 9 September, the company said that…
