How can we see individual molecules? Tereza Roesel from the Dioscuri Center for Single-Molecule Optics at the Institute of Physics presented this topic in the FameLab finals—and won the Audience Award for her presentation.
On the last Friday of September, we opened the educational trail of the Czech Academy of Sciences’ Institutes in Ládví as part of Researchers' Night. Its interactive outdoor exhibits now show people walking by what scientists at the nearby institutes work on.
Want to combine an enjoyable evening with supporting a worthy cause? That’s exactly what this benefit concert will offer. It will take place on October 2 at 7:00 p.m. at the Municipal Theater in Kolín. This evening filled with music will also help students who want to expand their knowledge, experience, and horizons.
The seventh HR Coffee & Talk took place at Slovanka and Cukrovarnická. Over the course of the afternoon, staff could ask about courses, grants and outreach. They also left with contacts for colleagues from other departments.
Researchers Dr. Benjamin Lowe and Dr. Oleksandr Stetsovych from FZU have built a QR code more than 1000 times smaller than the width of a human hair and nearly 800 times smaller than the current Guiness World Record holder.
Lukáš Palatinus, head of the electron crystallography laboratory at the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, received the Gjønnes Medal for electron crystallography and the John Cowley Medal from the International Federation of Societies for Microscopy (IFSM).
Radiation that travelled through space for longer than the Sun and Earth have existed has now been captured by the LST-1 and MAGIC telescopes in the Canary Islands. It was emitted by the active galactic nucleus OP 313, powered by a massive black hole. No one has yet observed a more distant active galactic nucleus in the ultra-high-energy range.
In the last week of July, scientists from around the world converged on Prague. At the 11th Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics conference (FQMT'26), they explored what quantum mechanics tells us about the world today and how to turn it into the technologies of tomorrow.
The European Physical Society’s 2026 Europhysics Prize for outstanding contributions to condensed matter physics was awarded to Libor Šmejkal, Jairo Sinova and Tomáš Jungwirth for their discovery of altermagnetism, the third fundamental class of magnetic orders. Altermagnets combine the advantages of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets while exhibiting unique properties not found in either of those classes.
On Sunday, July 5, 2026, Jan Hladký died at the age of 91, shy of his 92nd birthday. A physicist who devoted nearly seven decades to science, he made his mark on the international history of particle physics through his discoveries.
The start of full operations at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, whose development and science programme involve researchers from FZU, attracted wide attention from Czech media. Czech Television, Czech Radio and several print and online outlets covered the launch of the ten-year survey of the southern sky. Here is a selection of the most interesting coverage.
A Czech team of secondary school students from Hlučín, Plzeň and Prague won a gold medal at the international round of the Young Physicists' Tournament (IYPT), hosted by Zurich, Switzerland, from 5 to 12 July.
