On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the experimental confirmation of the existence of the Higgs boson, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the LHC accelerator at CERN released in 2022 the most extensive overviews of experimental verification of its production methods to date [1,2]. Specifically, it concerns measuring its production rate, including the associated production with a pair of top quarks, and its decay fractions to different particles, from two photons, Z or W bosons to pairs of b-quarks.

Last year the European Southern Observatory (ESO) celebrated 60 years of existence, and the Czech Republic also celebrated 15 years since joining ESO. On this occasion, a conference was held in the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic on February 21, 2023, with the participation of ESO Director General Professor Xavier Barcons. The conference was organized by the 1st Vice-President of the Senate Prof. Jiří Drahoš, and the Vice-President of the Senate Committee on European Affairs Dr. Jiří Dušek.

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.