News
Jiří Grygar wins Neuron Award
Astrophysicist and science popularizer Jiří Grygar from the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences received the Neuron Foundation Award for promoting a love of science at the Prague Planetarium.
Edit science with us. The nationwide Month of Science on Wikipedia begins
The Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (FZU) is helping to organise the Month of Science on Wikipedia, a nationwide initiative to create and improve science articles on the Czech Wikipedia. The main editathon will be held on 14 May 2026 at our Prague site on Cukrovarnická. Everyone is welcome, whether you have edited Wikipedia before or not. The initiative runs from 1 May to 15 June 2026.
Where is everybody? On the anniversary of the first spaceflight, we searched for answers to mysterious questions
This year marks 65 years since Yuri Gagarin became the first person to fly into space. To celebrate the anniversary, the Institute of Physics (FZU) and the science outreach community Pátečníci put together an afternoon of talks at Dvořák Hall on 12 April.
From Prague to the world's largest detector. FZU wins award for video documenting sensor testing for CERN
The Institute of Physics has received an award for a video about the testing of silicon sensors for CERN. The award itself takes the form of a statuette resembling a film Oscar.
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Controlling the Charge State of Organic Molecules on Ultrathin Oxide Films
