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.
Eight teams, six months of preparation, three days of physics competitions. The winners of this year’s 39th Young Physicists’ Tournament have been announced.
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.
What happens when a particle from deep space hits the Earth's atmosphere? And how do scientists actually find out? A group of secondary school students explored these questions at a full-day seminar on astroparticle physics.
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.
Students involved in the Czech Journey to Space project accepted an invitation to an expert excursion to the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences. During the excursion, they learned about current research, technologies, and international projects in which the Institute is involved, and tried their hand at the work of scientists in laboratories.
