By Bloomberg Published November 20, 2025 Americans are planning to spend more this holiday season than last year, according to credit reporting firm TransUnion. A shopper carries shopping bags as she walks on a street in Paris, France, June 10, 2022 – Reuters In a sign of consumer resilience, roughly 57% of US shoppers surveyed…
This moss grew from a spore exposed to space for nine months Tomomichi Fujita On 4 March 2022, astronauts locked 20,000 moss spores outside the International Space Station and left them exposed to the rigours of space for 283 days. They then rescued the spores and returned them to Earth on a SpaceX capsule so…
Jim ReedHealth reporter, Covid inquiry Mark Tilley Mark Tilley worked as an ambulance technician in south-east England through the first two waves of the pandemic Ambulance crews faced crucial delays trying to save dying patients in the pandemic because of the time it took to put on protective equipment, the Covid inquiry has been told….
Fossil fuels pollute the air when they are extracted and when they are burned, but the steps between those two points involve far more than familiar scenes of drilling equipment and smoke-filled power plants. These visible operations represent only the beginning and end of a five-stage process that brings fossil fuels from the ground to…
Alison Holt,Social affairs editor and Becky Morton,Political reporter Getty Images The Liberal Democrats have called on the government to exempt social care from the rise in National Insurance. The party said the chancellor had provided extra funding for the NHS and other public sector organisations to cover the cost of the tax rise – but…
Published November 20, 2025 Italian eyewear manufacturer Marcolin is focusing on the Catalan capital as it expands in the Spanish market. On November 18, Marcolin opened its new showroom in Barcelona, a venue on Avenida Diagonal that houses offices alongside an exhibition area dedicated to the brands in its portfolio. The Italian company specialised in…
How Nano Banana Pro helps you bring any idea or design to life Nano Banana Pro can help you visualize any idea and design anything – from prototypes, to representing data as infographics, to turning handwritten notes into diagrams. With Nano Banana Pro, now you can: Generate more accurate, context-rich visuals based on enhanced reasoning,…
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have found that the magnetic component of light plays a direct part in the Faraday Effect, overturning a 180-year belief that only light’s electric field was involved. Their work shows that light can exert magnetic influence on matter, not simply illuminate it. This insight could support advances in…
Getty Images The government ignored an early warning by two Nobel prize-winning scientists that all healthcare workers should be routinely tested for coronavirus in the pandemic, the Covid inquiry has heard. The advice came in a strongly-worded letter sent in April 2020 by the chief executive of the Francis Crick Institute, Sir Paul Nurse, and…
Published November 20, 2025 K-Way’s retail expansion is gathering pace with a new opening in Milan, and the company confirms it will end the year on a positive note after recording €159 million in revenue in 2024. “The year 2025 is definitely set to grow. The rate will depend on the performance of November and…
