The ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb collaborations at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have been awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. The award was presented on 5 April 2025 in Los Angeles and recognises scientific results based on LHC Run-2 data collected up to July 2024. It honours the collective work of thousands of scientists from more than 70 countries, represented at the ceremony by the spokespersons who led the collaborations during this period.

Experts from the Joint Laboratory of Optics of Palacký University and the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences are assisting restorers with the ongoing renovation of the Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Over the past several weeks, chemists, physicists, and geoinformatics specialists have conducted a detailed examination of the monument’s gilded sections. The data collected will guide restorers in carrying out a sensitive and scientifically informed restoration of this Baroque landmark.

In September, the installation of mirrors on three large telescopes (Large-Sized Telescope – LST) was completed on the Canary Island of La Palma. These telescopes will become part of the future Cherenkov Telescope Array observatory.

Scientists from the Joint Laboratory of Optics have become the first in the world to experimentally confirm a link between the uncertainty of a quantum state and quantum entanglement — a connection theoretically predicted by physicists from Japan and Taiwan. The results of their scientific work, published in a prestigious journal by Springer Nature, offer a completely new perspective on previously unknown relationships governing the functioning of nature at the quantum level.