Vladislav Pokorný, a physicist from the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (FZU), is a co-author of a study that won the prestigious ACS Nano Impact Award 2026. In it, researchers managed to build a tiny memory by placing single molecules on the surface of a superconductor.

Scientists at the HiLASE centre have pulled off something no one had managed before. Using the FREYA hyperspectral camera, they captured a burning meteor in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum for the first time. But space isn't the only direction HiLASE technology is heading. The centre, part of the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, develops lasers for industry and defence.

On the night of June 30, a large survey telescope designed to map the ever-changing universe began full-scale operations at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. This marks a major shift in how we gather knowledge about our planet’s immediate and distant surroundings. Over the course of three nights, the telescope captures images of the entire southern sky—and it will repeat this process for ten years. As a result, we will obtain an astronomical amount of data and records of what changes in the sky and how. This will allow us to explore the universe in ways that were previously inaccessible to us.