Eight teams, six months of preparation, three days of physics competitions. The winners of this year’s 39th Young Physicists’ Tournament have been announced.
In recent weeks, CERN has delivered two results worth paying attention to. The LHCb experiment discovered a long-sought particle. The BASE experiment, for the first time in history, transported antiprotons outside the laboratory.
As every year, we are inviting everyone who wants to capture the world. The competition is open in two categories, and the best photos will be awarded at a ceremony in autumn 2026.
On Czech Wikipedia today, you will find over 133,000 articles about men and only 30,000 about women. In March, FZU joined forces with Wikimedia Czech Republic to do something about it, co-organising an editathon on 24 March focused on women in science.
Ing. Vladimír Nekvasil, DrSc. his entire life to condensed matter physics and, after 1989, became one of the key figures in building Czech science on new, free foundations. On 20 April, he would have turned 82.
Jakub Bulička from the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences has taken third place in the best diploma thesis category of the Werner von Siemens Award - one of the most prestigious prizes for student research in the Czech Republic.
The Einstein Telescope is a European scientific project of extraordinary scope, aimed at building a next-generation gravitational wave detector capable of detecting minute distortions in spacetime itself with unprecedented sensitivity.
How can we create a working environment in which people feel respected, can openly share their experiences, and are not afraid to point out problematic situations? These and many other questions were addressed in a lecture by Kateřina Šámalová, ombudswoman at Charles University, organized by the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences on the occasion of International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
The Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University, in cooperation with the Czech Academy of Sciences, has launched the most powerful Czech helium liquefier for scientific purposes, with a capacity of 57 liters of liquid helium per hour, which can liquefy up to 70,000 m3 of gaseous helium per year. Scientists will also use the device to re-liquefy extremely volatile rare gases from laboratories, which they recycle in this way.
In the presence of representatives of the European Commission, the Czech Academy of Sciences, ministries, partner institutions, and industry, the Surface Science Laboratory Station (SSLS) research apparatus was officially inaugurated on February 12 at the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The apparatus was moved to Prague from the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Karlsruhe.
What challenges must women overcome if they want to succeed in science while also caring for their families? And is it possible to lead the largest scientific institution in Czechia without compromising one's values? These and other questions were answered by two prominent figures in Czech science – Professors Helena Illnerová and Eva Zažímalová, former presidents of the Czech Academy of Sciences, during the Per aspera – Women's Path through Science gala evening.
On January 27, 2026, the Research, Development and Innovation Council (RVVI) held an annual conference at the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (FZU) dedicated to the evaluation of research organizations according to the 2017+/2025+ Methodology.
