ALMAS

A new musical built around Alejandro Sanz's songs, titled 'El alma al aire', is premiering in Spain, reworking the singer-songwriter's catalogue for the theatre. Spanish media are covering the show as a fresh way to experience hits that defined several decades of Spanish pop, and the project is drawing attention from fans of the artist.

Caitlin Clark returned to the University of Iowa to serve as the celebrity guest picker on ESPN's College GameDay, reuniting the basketball star with the Hawkeyes program that made her famous. Her homecoming appearance drew wide attention across sports outlets, with fans energised by the prospect of an upset in the featured game and by Clark's continued star power in college sports.

Former NBA All-Star Antawn Jamison has joined the University of North Carolina as a visiting professor. Jamison, a standout at UNC before a long professional career, returns to his alma mater in a new academic role. Details about the courses he will teach or the duration of the appointment have not been made public, and neither the university nor Jamison has elaborated beyond the announcement.

The ALMA Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert is opening its doors to the public as part of Science Month celebrations, marking 15 years of operation. The world's largest radio telescope array has spent the decade and a half observing distant galaxies, star formation and cosmic phenomena. Anniversary events aim to connect local communities with the astronomical research conducted at the high-altitude site.

A French music fan shared a pick of three lesser-known Gérald De Palmas singles as a good way to start the day: 'Elle danse seule' from 2004, 'Jenny' from 2013 and 'Personne' from 2023. The selection spans two decades of the French singer-songwriter's catalogue, highlighting deeper cuts rather than his biggest radio hits.

A renowned pianist and graduate of Davenport Central High School returned to his alma mater to share his music with current students, according to local news coverage from the Quad Cities area. The visit gave young musicians a chance to hear from and learn alongside a professional who once walked the same school halls.

Jessica Watkins, a Stanford alumna from the class of 2010, has been named commander of NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station. Watkins, a geologist and NASA astronaut who previously flew to orbit in 2022, becomes one of the few astronauts to command a crewed SpaceX Dragon flight, drawing attention from the space community and her alma mater.

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected neutral oxygen emission in four galaxies dating to the epoch of reionization, roughly 700 to 800 million years after the Big Bang. The finding offers rare insight into the chemical conditions of the earliest galaxies and how elements formed in the first generations of stars spread through the young universe.

Dr. James Geisler, a 2014 graduate of Fairfield University's master's program, is broadening suicide prevention training across Connecticut. The effort, highlighted by his alma mater, aims to equip more people in the state with skills to recognize and respond to individuals at risk. The initiative reflects growing attention to mental health resources and community-level prevention work in Connecticut.

Astronomers have released a combined ALMA and Hubble image of Arp 220, also known as IC 4553, a pair of colliding spiral galaxies roughly 250 million light-years away. The merger triggered a powerful burst of star formation that backlights the dust lanes in the Hubble visible-light view, while ALMA's millimetre-wavelength data marks dense molecular gas where new stars are forming.