Silvia Soler (Figueres, 1961) cannot hide how much fun she had writing her new book. We were so young It is part of the collection The jewel of living Published by Univers, it features texts conceived and created from a beautiful perspective, focusing above all on the joy of existence. Soler was previously part of the collection in 2022 with The joy of living And now she returns with a title based on a peculiar premise. The writer—who has a long and prolific career with books such as The summer that begins (Planeta, 2013, Ramon Llull Prize) and We, afterwards (Univers, 2021) – has created "a photo album without photos." Soler has rummaged through family photo albums and selected some forty images, which he then pairs with short texts explaining them and giving wings to the reflections they inspire. Inevitably, the book is filled with happy moments that lead him to discuss the foundations of his memory: family, friends, travel, childhood and youth, and nostalgia.

"My name is Ismael, Ismael Coficofin, and I think I survived only to tell you this story": that's how it begins After the shipwreck, the new novel byAlbert Sánchez Piñol (Barcelona, ​​1965), in which he dares to continue one of the most ambitious and at the same time cursed books of the 19th century, Moby Dick, of Herman MelvilleThe commercial and critical failure when it was published in 1851 was resounding, although over time it came to be considered one of the great novels in the history of literature.

The first time he laid eyes on a telescope, he saw the Moon. And Jupiter. And its satellites. And he was so struck that at that moment, he recalls, he felt certain he wanted to dedicate himself to it. And that at the time Ignasi Ribas (Manresa, 1971) was only 11 years old.

It's known as "first light," and, broadly speaking, it's the first snapshot taken by an instrument. However, in this case, this first snapshot is historic, because it's the first light taken by the world's largest digital camera. This Monday, the first images from the Rubin Observatory, located in Chile, were made public. Its mission is to create the most complete film of the night sky ever made. The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is the mapping project that will scan the southern sky over the next 10 years. The project is an international collaboration funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), with the participation of two centers of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).

Dark energy fills the entire Universe and determines its expansion rate. Now, data from more than 15 million galaxies and quasars, the DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) experiment, in which Catalonia participates heavily, reveal that this type of energy could have varied over time.

"I love you and this is a cry for help. I love you and that is a let's do it together, please". These are the two opening sentences of We dreamed of an island, the novel with which Roc Casagran (Sabadell, 1980) has won the 2024 Sant Jordi Award. These are phrases that give an indication of what the novel will be like: they establish the narrative and stylistic coordinates – a realism with poetic tones –, they mark its ethical and ideological orientation – in humanism with utopian echoes – and on the surface.

After crossing the threshold of 70 years, suffering from cancer and a breakup, Marina Rossell (Castellet i la Gornal, 1954) proposed to her friend Albert Om (Taradell, 1966) that he write her a short biography, but one that went straight to the core. The result is I won't make another book. (Universe), a book that is many: an intimate portrait of the singer, her particular look from a time of a country, the soundtrack of our lives and the testimony of a friendship. Om—Albertillu, as she calls him—knows how to guide the singer through memories she'd never shared, through comical situations, and through lessons learned that are life lessons. Fun and exciting, the book's release coincides with Marina Rossell's concert this Thursday night at Luz de Gas, at the Barnasants Festival, in honor of the album. 300 screams (Satellite K).

The vast Universe remains a great mystery to humanity. Is there life outside of Earth? What would aliens be like or how would we communicate with them? We have been asking ourselves these kinds of questions for over 2,000 years and the answer, thanks to researchers, seems to be getting closer every day. To explain the knowledge we have so far about aliens and shed some light on scientific research, CosmoCaixa is launching the exhibition Extraterrestrials. Is there life outside of Earth?, this Tuesday, February 25.

Researchers from the European collaboration KM3NeT have detected the most energetic neutrino ever observed. The observation took place on 13 February at the ARCA detector, a powerful neutrino telescope located in the depths of the Mediterranean Sea. The results, published this Wednesday in the journal Nature, are the first evidence that such energetic neutrinos can be produced in the Universe. These particles are very light, have no charge, and interact very little with matter. Although they are the second most abundant particle in the Universe, the characteristics of neutrinos make it very difficult to detect them and require very advanced technology to study them in detail. The discovery represents an important step in understanding the most energetic phenomena in the cosmos.