Sakura Pascarelli, scientific director at the European X-ray Free-Electron Laser Facility (EuXFEL), gave in the Dvořák lecture a full and inspiring overview of the facility's cutting-edge science, technological advancements, and its transformative role in global research.
For the ninth time, we met science enthusiasts from schools and the general public at the Czech Academy of Sciences' Science Fair, the largest popular science event in the Czech Republic. At the FZU exhibition, people could play sunrays in the photovoltaic tent, see the spectrum of visible light with their own eyes, build molecules from Lego, read new physics-themed comics and short stories, and also see a real magnetic sputtering machine, observe the martensitic transformation of alloys under a microscope, and other important physical instruments and phenomena.
Starting Monday, May 5, for four days we could meet almost a hundred international participants of the final meeting of the Advancement and Innovation for Detectors at Accelerators (AIDAinnova) project in the corridors of the Solid 21 building and the old building of the Institute of Physics.
On Friday 16 May, six agreements on scientific cooperation were formally signed at the Prague representation of the Free State of Saxony, between the German Center for Astrophysics and leading Czech scientific institutions.
Altermagnets and magnonics have both made the headlines repeatedly last year. Miina Leiviskä, a MSCA COFUND Physics for Future fellowship postdoc at the Institute of Physics of the CAS, blends these topics that have so recently upturned the world of physics. Are they at the core of future computing, or is it not so simple?
Everyday things have interesting aspects if we choose to explore them a little. Crystallography studies substances in the solid state. When a chicken egg is considered, only the shell is solid. That's what we decided to analyse using X-ray diffraction.
Without adequate methods, science is essentially blind. Why, then, is it so hard to secure funding for pure method development? Daniel Tchoń from the Institute of Physics of the CAS shares his journey towards scientific software development and why he views science as a form of art.
