This is an announcement for the paper “Generalized metric properties of spheres and renorming of normed spaces” by S. Ferrari, J. Orihuela and M. Raja. Abstract: We study some generalized metric properties of weak topologies when restricted to the unit sphere of some equivalent norm on a Banach space, and their relationships with other geometrical properties of norms. In case of dual Banach space $X^*$, we prove that there exists a dual norm such that its unit sphere is a Moore space for the weak$^*$topology (has a $G_\delta$-diagonal for the weak$^*$-topology, respectively) if, and only if, $X^*$ admits an equivalent weak$^*$-LUR dual norm (rotund dual norm, respectively). The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.08175