It seems like yesterday when Pep Guardiola began to build the perfect football clock, a work of unparalleled precision that has transformed the game like never before. Yes, he had a rich background as a player and boundless curiosity, driven by his passionate character and the…
All intensity needs a vanishing point. Sometimes a meaningful glance, deliberately bold lips, or skin worked to the point of sculptural perfection is enough to transform the message makeup sends to the world. Nars, a master at reconciling sophistication and daring, proposes an exercise in choice: which feature deserves to capture all the light?
The first time someone hears that Spain exports more perfumes and cosmetics than olive oil, wine, or footwear, the eyebrow raises a little in disbelief. However, the figures are clear: we are the second largest perfume exporter in the world, only behind France, and a cosmetic power that has quietly and almost unnoticed slipped into half the planet, with a presence in 175 markets. Exporting is not a complement, but one of the main engines of the economy and the sector.
One more year we will celebrate what Simone Weil defined as “the supreme mystery of this world” and Jorge Luis Borges, not far from the philosopher’s vision, as “that beautiful mystery that neither psychology nor rhetoric can decipher.” Beauty will once again be the protagonist of the gala that we celebrate every spring at the Thyssen Museum in Madrid to award, among works of art and with artists’ names, the best launches of the year in cosmetics and perfumery
Technology is a great ally of volunteering to bridge social gaps, starting with the digital divide itself, and to open vital opportunities for people of all ages. Although Telefónica’s corporate volunteering has had digital components for many years, 2026 marks a new milestone because it becomes 100% technological volunteering, with three ingredients: it values employees’ talent, drives Fundación Telefónica’s programs, and serves the digital challenges of social entities.
In Spain, there are around 450 startups that are developing in one way or another applications or infrastructure related to artificial intelligence (AI). Multiverse Computing, Cala AI, Openchip, and Biorce are four examples leading the sector.
The United States and China are winning the artificial intelligence game. However, Europe and Spain, in particular, are also playing their role in this great digital revolution.
Rarely in recent decades have reservoirs been as full and overflowing as this spring. According to the latest data from the Ministry for the Ecological Transition (Miteco), aquifers are very close to their maximum capacity. Reserves are only 16% – 9,000 cubic hectometers – away from reaching full capacity. In a climate not altered by the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, these figures would guarantee a long period of wet soils. However, on a planet warming to record levels, the abundant and concentrated rains of recent months do not shield the country from suffering a drought.
Few things are more Barcelonan than kicking off the most gluttonous intellectual-social week of, perhaps, all time with an explosion of Central European gravity and full-blown melancholy. How about a Mahler? A First Symphony for the penultimate Monday of May while the city…
