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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.

In 2024, the ATLAS experiment published in Nature the first observation of quantum entanglement at the highest energies, specifically in a system of top quark pairs produced in proton-proton collisions at the LHC accelerator at CERN.

On Wednesday, February 23, 2022, the SST-1M gamma-ray telescope started first observations from the Observatory of the Astronomical Institute CAS in Ondřejov. The telescope will detect gamma rays of very high energy originating from sources in our Galaxy or more distant locations of the Universe. The project is realized in teh international collaboration of reserachers from CAS, Palacký University in Olomouc, and teams from Switzerland, Poland, and Ukraine.

The Council of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) elected Dušan Mandát the member of the Scientific Technical Committee of ESO (STC). STC is the main advisory body of the Council and the Director General on scientific and technical matters. STC is composed of representatives of ESO member states and Dušan Mandát will replace at this position Dr.