During the 2020 lockdown Marco Potenza developed many Optical experiences to be performed autonomously by the students at home to achieve the objectives of the third year Laboratory Course. The activity has been awarded by the Italian Physical Society.

Explaining the Dragonfish ultra-black skin, which contains pigment nanoparticles which not only absorb light but also scatter and circulate light, could be useful in highly efficient solar cells.

The project addressed to third year students (in 2021/2022) has started. Students will have the opportunity to make a video on a research theme, interacting with researchers and students of Unimi-Sorbonne-Heidelberg, also during visits to the other institutions.

The RADIOLAB project, which brings young people closer to the topic of radioactivity through field measurements of the concentration of the radioactive gas Rn-222 has taken on an international role. The Embassy of Italy in Tirana has published the work done by the students of the Italian-Albanian section of the Korcia Lyceum.

A paper in Physical Review Letters unveils the existence of well-defined topological defects in the displacement field of disordered solids and shows that they are responsible for the plastic deformation of glasses.

On the 100th anniversary of Andrei Sakharov's birth, a webinar celebrates Sakharov (recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1975) and his outstanding efforts both in physics and in the defense and awareness of human rights.

The prize has been awarded "for their ground-breaking observation of solar neutrinos from the pp and CNO chains that provided unique and comprehensive tests of the Sun as a nuclear fusion engine".