Eight months after departing Dior, Chiuri’s return to fashion’s front bench was stamped with her identity and values

A big name designer’s first catwalk show in a new job is a drumroll moment of pure ego: Maria Grazia Chiuri, who joins Fendi after leaving Dior, is a headline-making hire with main character energy.

The first surprise, as Milan fashion week began, was a catwalk painted with the motto: “Less I, more us.”

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Changes threaten ecosystems as flowering falls out of sync with fruit-eating, seed-dispersing animals and pollinators

Tropical flowers are blooming months earlier or later than they used to because of climate breakdown, with potentially “cascading impacts across ecosystems”, according to a study of 8,000 plants dating back 200 years.

Researchers looked at flowers from a range of countries, including Brazil, Ecuador, Ghana and Thailand, home to the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth, but also the most understudied.

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Everyone’s been talking about the raft of technical innovations and changes for 2026, but one of the easiest for fans to spot is the new rear and side lights on each car. You’ll see them flashing at every circuit, but what exactly does each colour and sequence mean, and why have they been redesigned?

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Kodak Portra 400 with Mamiya RB67 and Sekor 50 mm

The screeching sound that Scotch tape makes when you rip it off a surface -- that fingernails-on-a-chalkboard noise most people try not to think about -- is produced by shock waves from micro-cracks that travel across the peeling tape at supersonic speeds, according to a new paper published in Physical Review E.

Researchers led by Sigurdur Thoroddsen of King Abdullah University in Saudi Arabia used simultaneous high-speed imaging and synchronized microphones to capture both the propagating fractures and the sound waves they generate in the surrounding air. The team's earlier work, in 2010, had identified a sequence of transverse cracks racing across the width of the adhesive during peeling, and a 2024 follow-up established a direct correspondence between those cracks and the screeching sound, but neither study pinpointed a mechanism.

The new findings show that a partial vacuum forms between the tape and the surface as each crack opens, and because the crack moves faster than air can rush in to fill the void, the vacuum travels along until it reaches the tape's edge and collapses into the stationary air outside, producing a discrete sound pulse.

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Burgemeester Theo Segers en de gemeenteraadsleden kijken met een dubbel gevoel terug op de demonstratie die gisterenavond uit de hand liep in Bleskensgraaf. Terwijl de raad discussieerde over de komst van een azc in de gemeente Molenlanden, liep buiten de spanning op en greep de ME in. “Dat de ME optreedt in Bleskensgraaf, dat had je vorig jaar toch niet kunnen bedenken.”

Burgemeester Theo Segers en de gemeenteraadsleden kijken met een dubbel gevoel terug op de demonstratie die gisterenavond uit de hand liep in Bleskensgraaf. Terwijl de raad discussieerde over de komst van een azc in de gemeente Molenlanden, liep buiten de spanning op en greep de ME in. “Dat de ME optreedt in Bleskensgraaf, dat had je vorig jaar toch niet kunnen bedenken.”

Op de eerste dag van het debat over de regeringsverklaring gaat het opnieuw over de AOW-leeftijd. Daar blijkt ineens al een deal over te zijn. Het overgrote deel van de oppositie is erdoor verrast.

Het Vertrouwensloket Welzijn Landbouwhuisdieren komt al 25 jaar over de vloer bij boeren die hun dieren verwaarlozen. Agrarisch sociaalpsycholoog Henk Korterink en dierenarts Frederik Waldeck weten: als het slecht gaat met het vee, gaat het meestal ook niet goed met de boer. „Ergens is vaak iets geknakt.”

AI firm drops key safety pledge as Pentagon dispute drags on

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has made Anthropic an offer it may not be able to refuse. The Defense Department and the AI firm held a meeting at the Pentagon on Tuesday, where the government tried to compel the house of Claude to lift some restrictions on military use of its tech. However, recent changes to the company's safety policy suggest it may be willing to be more flexible than it's letting on. …