For decades, one of the best-known stories in science was told like a movie. In 1953, at the age of 23, James Watson visited Maurice Wilkins’s laboratory at King’s College London. There, Wilkins showed him a photograph of DNA taken by Rosalind Franklin, and Watson had an epiphany. “The instant I saw the picture my mouth fell open and my pulse began to race,” Watson wrote in The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA, the book in which he recounted, 15 years later, how he and Francis Crick unraveled the structure of DNA.
Right-wing candidate Flávio Bolsonaro, who hopes to win Brazil’s presidential election before the end of the month, announced Tuesday that he intends to leverage the large parliamentary bloc won by his party, the Liberal Party (PL), in Sunday’s vote to push through deep changes. The son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, who is serving a 27-year sentence for plotting a coup against President Lula’s government, said at a campaign event in Goiânia, near Brasília, that he wants to use the PL’s legislative strength to appoint the presidents of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate and to “reform the Constitution, to redemocratize the country, so that institutions once again respect the Constitution.”
John Roberts, the discreet justice who has presided over the United States Supreme Court for two decades, was upset some time ago that people believed the nation’s highest court was making “political decisions.” In several polls, Americans said they were worried not only about how much power the court had amassed but also about all the rulings that have ended up bolstering Donald Trump and his control over the federal government.
When attorney Vanessa Potkin learned about the botched execution of inmate Christa Pike, she worried that her client, Melissa Lucio, would hear what had happened in Tennessee and think about what might happen to her. The Latina has spent nearly 18 years on death row in a Texas prison trying to prove she is innocent of causing her two-year-old daughter’s death.
The Bolsonaro family tree can be very confusing, so a guide is often helpful. “God, homeland, family and liberty” is the slogan that sums up the idea of Brazil put forward by the clan in recent years. The most radical Bolsonarists interpret the term “family” in the most traditional sense — father, mother, children and perhaps a pet — even though millions of Brazilians do not fit that model. Not even Jair Messias Bolsonaro, 71, the former military officer who restored pride and visibility to Brazil’s far right. After three marriages and two divorces, the patriarch formed a family with five children (four adult men, all politicians, and one teenager), a political clan that also includes his current wife, a family shaken by scandals and endless internal tensions. Last Sunday, the former president’s eldest son, Flávio Bolsonaro, won the first round of the election against incumbent President Lula, and five Bolsonaros won parliamentary seats. Here is a guide to help keep track.
Lula, who was born in 1945 in a small town in the interior of the state of Pernambuco, defied the odds by surviving hunger and disease as a baby — a fate that befell so many of his compatriots in those same circumstances. Now he dreams of defying the odds, and history, once again. Never since Brazil restored democracy in 1985 has anyone who finished second in the first round of the presidential election gone on to win the final vote. President Lula da Silva, who on Sunday secured 45% of the vote compared to Flávio Bolsonaro’s 47%, is devising a strategy to attract centrist voters and mobilize the masses of abstainers, with a special focus on those aged over 70. He has three weeks to make what now sounds like nothing short of a miracle a reality.
A development that passed largely unnoticed in Colombia has generated major attention in Ecuador. Authorities last week announced the arrest of Inda Mariela Peñarrieta Tuárez and Michelle Macías Peñarrieta, the wife and daughter of José Adolfo Macías, alias “Fito,” the leader of the Los Choneros gang, who is currently imprisoned in the United States. Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella welcomed the arrests and said he would “gladly” send the two women to his “friend” Daniel Noboa. “That’s how it’s done, Abelardo,” the Ecuadorian president replied.
Ten years ago, Brock Turner, a student-athlete at Stanford University in California, was convicted of three felonies for sexual assault against an unconscious woman whom he attacked, in front of witnesses, behind a trash container after a fraternity party on campus.
The ultraconservative wave sweeping across Latin America scored a crucial victory in Brazil on Sunday, one that appears likely to become definitive in three weeks’ time.
Flavio Bolsonaro speaks after advancing to a runoff election following the first round of the presidential election in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2026.
Brasilia, 2016: Congressman Jair Messias Bolsonaro votes in favor of impeaching left-wing President Dilma Rousseff. And he dedicates his vote to the military officer who tortured her during the dictatorship (1964-1985), when she was a guerrilla fighter.
A supporter of the right-wing Liberal Party poses for a photo with cutouts of Flávio Bolsonaro (left) and his father, Jair Bolsonaro, at a campaign event in Rio de Janeiro, in August.
Pollution crosses any border. Residents of Seville saw this in August when the huge Niebla wildfire in Huelva province collapsed air quality levels in the Andalusian capital. Madrid residents experienced it days earlier when the regional government asked them to stay indoors because smoke was arriving from out-of-control fires in the Sierra Oeste and Ávila province. This pollution, laden with harmful particles, travels tens or hundreds of miles, and sometimes crosses countries and oceans. “Air quality in our cities, towns or countries is not only influenced by local activities but can be affected by pollution from neighboring or quite distant nations,” explains Ian Marnane, head of the Environment and Health Unit at the European Environment Agency (EEA).
María Elvira Salazar wore a dark blouse and a striking pearl necklace when she arrived at journalist Juan Manuel Cao’s studio in Miami. She took a seat, tucked her hair behind her ears, made sure she had good lighting and found the best camera angle. She’s well trained in the ways of television.
Never before have so many Brazilians held a job, but never have so many families — eight out of 10 — been strangled by debt. Paying it off consumes a third of household budgets in Latin America’s largest economy. And it is there that much of the discontent weighing on Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s electoral prospects is born. His 2022 promise that, with him in power, the glorious days of the picanha, the grilled meat, the Sunday barbecue, would return remains a dream for most. For his compatriots, the cost of living is too high. Paying the bills is often impossible, even though the president insists unemployment is at a historic low (5.3%), inequality is falling, and inflation is under control.
Sandro Castro, Fidel’s influencer grandson who runs several Havana nightclubs, was asked a question on Instagram a few days ago that was seen by his more than 165,000 followers. “When will change come to Cuba?” The young Castro posted a photo of himself with a Cuban flag draped over his back while gazing at Havana’s cracked skyline from afar: “Cuba is already changing, or haven’t you noticed?” he replied. Certainly, the country that existed in January is not the same nine months later: most people still watch life slip away amid shortages and long power outages, but a new private class is taking on roles that used to belong to the state — supplying pharmacies, importing and distributing diesel, and ensuring food sales.
Nature has perfected the art of creating living cells over billions of years. A team of researchers is now learning from that process and looking for ways to speed it up. For Massimo Vassalli, chair of bioengineering at the University of Glasgow, the goal is to understand not only how living tissues form, but how they can be recreated in the laboratory.
President Donald Trump told reporters this week he would embark on a 32-day campaign tour to try to save Republican races ahead of the midterm elections. Texas, along with other traditionally Republican states such as Iowa, is on his must-stop list. But the state attorney general and the party’s Senate candidate, Ken Paxton, does not appear convinced the visit will help.
La farmacia es, para buena parte de los españoles, uno de los establecimientos sanitarios más cercanos y accesibles. Su amplia presencia en todo el territorio convierte además a este sector en uno de los negocios con mayor capilaridad de la economía española. Son más de 22.000 las farmacias distribuidas por toda la geografía que generan una facturación conjunta cercana a los 25.000 millones de euros al año, con una media de 1,1 millones por establecimiento.
Su actividad está vinculada a una necesidad esencial, cuentan con una elevada capilaridad territorial y requieren una gestión financiera que va bastante más allá de abrir una cuenta corriente y cobrar a los clientes. Comprar una farmacia, renovar su equipamiento, automatizar parte de sus procesos, gestionar los pagos o proteger el establecimiento frente a nuevos riesgos son decisiones que forman parte de la vida habitual de estos negocios.
Y aquí es donde entra Santander y su nueva estrategia adaptada a este sector, con la que aspira a pasar de las 7.600 farmacias con las que trabaja en la actualidad a acompañar a 10.000 a finales de año. Si logra este objetivo, la entidad trabajaría con cerca de la mitad de las farmacias que existen actualmente en nuestro país.
Financiación adaptada a cada etapa del negocio
Pocas operaciones ilustran mejor la singularidad de este sector que la adquisición de una farmacia. Para un profesional que decide convertirse en titular, el momento de la compra supone una de las inversiones económicas más importantes de su trayectoria profesional. A ese proceso hay que sumar las necesidades propias de estos establecimientos: equipamiento específico, robots dispensadores, cámaras frigoríficas…
La financiación se convierte, por tanto, en una de las piezas centrales. La propuesta de Santander contempla soluciones específicas para la adquisición de farmacias, así como leasing para inversiones en equipamiento, robots dispensadores o cámaras frigoríficas y renting para vehículos y tecnología.
Del mostrador a la gestión diaria
El día a día de una farmacia implica cobrar, pagar a proveedores, gestionar ingresos, afrontar gastos, controlar la tesorería y mantener protegida una actividad que, como cualquier otro negocio, está expuesta a riesgos.
La cuenta bancaria y los sistemas de cobro son, más que meros elementos administrativos, parte de la infraestructura del establecimiento. En este sentido, las farmacias pueden acceder a una Cuenta Negocios sin comisiones y soluciones de cobro mediante TPV. Para los colegios con los que Santander mantiene acuerdos, además, existen condiciones específicas para los TPV, con una comisión que parte del 0,20%.
A estas condiciones se suma la propuesta tecnológica de Getnet, la plataforma global de pagos de Santander, que ofrece a las farmacias soluciones de cobro ágiles y seguras adaptadas a sus necesidades. Desde terminales de última generación, que pueden integrarse con el software de gestión de la farmacia, hasta soluciones que permiten convertir dispositivos móviles en terminales de pago, Getnet facilita una experiencia de compra más rápida y cómoda. Además, sus soluciones de comercio electrónico y cobro mediante enlaces de pago permiten a las farmacias ampliar sus canales de venta y avanzar en su digitalización.
Además, para afrontar otras necesidades y riesgos, la propuesta diseñada para este sector se completa con seguros para el negocio, soluciones de ciberseguridad y alarmas.
Una oferta que también mira al titular y a su equipo
Detrás de cada mostrador, con su característica bata blanca, encontramos a un profesional que, además de tomar decisiones empresariales, también tiene sus propias necesidades financieras. No está solo: junto a él, hay un equipo de trabajadores esencial para el buen funcionamiento del negocio. Es por eso que la propuesta de Santander no se limita a financiar la adquisición de una farmacia o a facilitar su operativa diaria, sino que extiende sus servicios tanto al titular del establecimiento como a sus empleados.
Para los farmacéuticos, la oferta contempla opciones de financiación, ahorro e inversión y seguros, además del acceso a los servicios de Santander Select. El objetivo es que el profesional pueda encontrar en una misma entidad respuestas para dos ámbitos que, en su día a día, están estrechamente relacionados: la gestión de su negocio y la de sus propias finanzas.
Este planteamiento se amplía al equipo que hace posible que la farmacia funcione cada día. Los empleados pueden acceder a la propuesta de Banco Santander para colectivos profesionales, que incluye cuentas sin comisiones, financiación en condiciones preferentes y servicios vinculados a aspectos cotidianos como los viajes y el bienestar.
Hay además un incentivo directamente ligado a una de las operaciones más habituales de cualquier trabajador: el ingreso de la nómina. Tanto los farmacéuticos como la plantilla pueden obtener hasta 840 euros en dos años por domiciliar sus ingresos y cumplir las condiciones de la promoción.
La importancia de estar donde se necesita
En sectores especializados, la relación entre una entidad financiera y su clientela también se construye a través de los colegios profesionales, las asociaciones, los distribuidores y los encuentros sectoriales. Actualmente, Santander mantiene acuerdos con tres colegios farmacéuticos y con Cofares, uno de los principales actores de la distribución farmacéutica en España.
El objetivo de la entidad financiera es ampliar esa relación con un sector tan importante para la economía española y uno de sus primeros pasos ha sido estar presente con un espacio propio en el Congreso Nacional de Farmacéuticos de Oviedo.
Toda esta iniciativa se enmarca en la estrategia del banco para reforzar su propuesta de valor para los colectivos profesionales. El objetivo de pasar de las más de 7.600 farmacias con las que trabaja actualmente a alcanzar las 10.000 a finales de este año pone una meta, pero el verdadero cambio que plantea Santander se encuentra en la naturaleza de la relación que quiere construir la entidad financiera con este sector.
La farmacia deja de contemplarse únicamente como una empresa que necesita financiación y pasa a abordarse como un ecosistema profesional: está el establecimiento, está el farmacéutico que lo dirige, están sus empleados y están las organizaciones y empresas que participan en la actividad.
When singer Rihanna arrived Wednesday night at the Matières Fécales fashion show—the most provocative, extravagant, and “cool” brand of Paris Fashion Week—photographers from media outlets around the world swarmed around her to capture her from every angle and in every possible format. Her “look,” created by the brand for the occasion, instantly became global news. In other words, the very reason she—and no one else—had been invited as the star guest was more than fulfilled. And yet, on that very same day, Georgian journalist Beka Gvishiani, better known as Style not com, dared to publicly state what no one had pointed out before: that the diva had kept more than five hundred people waiting for her for an hour.
All the journalists at this publication confirm that this habit is deeply ingrained in the artist. In fact, fashion editor Leticia García points out that it’s common knowledge in any city hosting fashion events featuring the singer that delays for everyone in the industry are guaranteed. In other words, Rihanna’s presence is excellent news for brands, which gain visibility, but very bad news for those working in the industry who see their work systematically slowed down. García experienced firsthand a delay of an hour and a half a year ago at an Off-White fashion show, right after having waited an hour for her at the Dior show. In the Style not com post, quite a few reporters allude to other epic delays: author Eva Chen recalls, for example, that Azzedine Alaïa show in New York in 2024, when she kept everyone on tenterhooks for 40 minutes. Patricia Rodríguez was present on that occasion and recalls the brand’s public relations staff saying, “We know she’s always late; what we don’t know is by how much.” Beatriz García, who has been covering the early-morning hours of the MET Gala for years, knows full well that the artist is always the last to appear. She is, quite literally, the most eagerly awaited.
It’s obvious that in this case, the delay is a “marketing” strategy like any other: making people wait is yet another way to create a sense of luxury and exclusivity. The expression “fashionably late” exists for a reason: in the fashion world, it’s very common for high-profile figures to make people wait in order to project a sense of status. To illustrate this, consider a remark made in 1995 by model Kate Moss — who is also notoriously tardy — when she was asked if she was generally as late as her colleague Naomi Campbell. With a horrified expression, she exclaimed, “No one is as late as Naomi!” There is, moreover, a completely different notion of time for divas in the entertainment world — a phenomenon that has been studied both by psychologists and psychiatrists, who argue that creative people easily become absorbed in their train of thought, so that minutes pass differently for them than for other people; as well as by film experts, who discuss how stars expand to occupy space and time in an unconventional way. This is what German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder coined as “diva time.”
However, Rihanna shatters all boundaries. Last year, at an event in India for her own makeup brand, the hugely popular Fenty, she kept everyone waiting for seven hours. The event began for guests and influencers at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, but she didn’t appear on the red carpet until 3:00 a.m. on Saturday. The delay led to some surreal moments, such as when influencers Parul Gulati and Smriti Khanna posted AI-generated images of themselves with the singer after being unable to take a photo with her in person. Columnist George Whirl comments on Style not com that Rihanna’s attitude is “gauche” — that is, tacky and rude, in French. But an anonymous user points out that this behavior isn’t limited to her brand commitments or her professional life: at her concerts, it’s also common for her to show up at least two hours late to present herself to her audience. Publicist Deshiv Puri, however, proposes a simple solution to the problem: “When we invited Cardi B to a Rahul Misra fashion show and she was late, the show started without her.” The problem is that we may be dealing with one of those rare cases where the show is, in fact, the guest herself.
The Dictionary of the Spanish Language explains that a geoglyph is a “large figure on slopes or in wide plains, carved directly into the ground or made with stones, especially by prehistoric peoples.” Of all those located worldwide, the most famous are the Nazca lines (Peru), which have been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. They are visible only from surrounding mountains or from the air, which gives them an aura of mystery. Now, a group of researchers from Argentina and Spain will study a structure that could be a geoglyph discovered last year at about 3,000 meters above sea level in the Tigre mountain range (Argentina) and which was found by mountaineer Carlos Gobbi while consulting Google Earth. A joint expedition will attempt to examine itin situ in December.
A Venezuelan man wounded by an immigration agent during an operation in Austin on September 20 was charged Tuesday by the federal government with assault, resisting authority and impeding the work of federal officers, according to a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas.
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