News: Institute of Physics

The start of full operations at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, whose development and science programme involve researchers from FZU, attracted wide attention from Czech media. Czech Television, Czech Radio and several print and online outlets covered the launch of the ten-year survey of the southern sky. Here is a selection of the most interesting coverage.

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.