ISPhO 2026. News

🏅 The wait is over 🚀 All medals have finally been shipped! 📦✨ A huge round of applause to our Team winners: 🏆Grand Prix — Russia 🇷🇺 🥇 First place — Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 🥈 Second place — Iran 🇮🇷 🥉 Third place — Belarus 🇧🇾 Team medals: 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan – 3 silver, 2 bronze 🇲🇾 Malaysia – 2 silver, 2 bronze 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan – 1 silver, 3 bronze 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan – 1 silver, 2 bronze 🇵🇪 Peru – 1 silver, 1 bronze 🇵🇰 Pakistan – 1 silver, 2 bronze 🇸🇾 Syria – 3 bronze 🇲🇽 Mexico – 3 bronze 🇨🇷 Costa Rica – 2 bronze 🇨🇺 Cuba – 1 silver 🇹🇯 Tajikistan – 1 bronze 🇶🇦 Qatar – 1 bronze Individual participants' medals: 🇮🇩 Indonesia – 1 silver, 1 bronze 🇰🇷 Korea – 1 bronze 🇷🇴 Romania – 1 silver 🇷🇸 Serbia – 1 silver, 1 bronze And a big congratulations to every participant and laureate — keep dreaming big! 🌟 None of this would be possible without our mentors, organizers, and everyone behind the scenes — thank you! 💙 📩 For your tracking number, drop us a line at ispho@phystech.edu — we'll get back to you soon!

Heyyy there! 👋💫 ❤️ Just wanted to say thank you for your active participation in the Olympiad life. We appreciate it sooo much! 🤲❤️ 🗓 Now we're taking a short break, but we will come back soon with ISPhO-2027 updates. News, intriguing stuff and physics flexes are on their way! 🔥🧠 ☝️Stay tuned, and let's keep vibing on this scientific journey together! 🚀🌌 👀 See you soon, physics fam! 👊✨

Friends don't let a tau-lepton decay by itself! 🤝💔 And duct tape? Yeah, that's basically sacred. 🔬🩹 #humour

💬 — The Scientist's Speech — 💬 “The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.” © Niels Bohr 🌀 In physics, two things CAN be true at once – wave and particle. It's all about that complementarity vibe. 🌊✨ 🧪At ISPhO, there's almost always more than one way to crack a problem. So don't lock yourself into thinking YOUR way is the ONLY way! 🚫🧠 🗺️ Try flipping it – go the opposite route. Sometimes the wildest path gives the cleanest solution 🛤 Stay flexible, stay curious! 🔥 #quotes

🔥 – Avoiding Burnout – 🔥 👋 Yo ISPhO fam – brains are cooked, burnout is real, and we got you! Here are some hacks to reboot your mind without touching a single formula 📚🚫 Tip 1. Potato mode 🥔 ☕❌ Forget coffee. Forget energy drinks. ⏰ Set a timer for 7 minutes. Sit completely still. Don't think about physics. Don't think about NOT thinking about physics. Just exist. Like a potato. 🧘‍♂️ ⏳ After 7 min your brain reboots like magic! ✨💥 Tip 2. Reverse scroll therapy 📱 🚩Your phone is distraction. Unless you use it AGAINST burnout. 🔥 💻 Open any social media. Scroll for 2 minutes — but ONLY watch stuff that has NOTHING to do with science - cats, cooking fails, sand art. 🐱🍲🎨 💪 Forces your brain to SWITCH contexts completely. 2 min = hard reset! 🔄🧠 Tip 3. Bat hang 🦇 🤥 This one sounds like a prank. It's NOT. Your brain processes info DIFFERENTLY when you're upside down. 🔄 🛋️ Hang your head off the edge of your bed or couch for 60 seconds. Read ONE physics formula upside down. 👀 🙃 Blood flow changes → fresh perspective! 💡 Now go try it – and come back ready to succeed! 💪🔥🧠 #no_burnout

The Higgs boson doesn't answer prayers — but it works like a charm in the Standard Model equations 😹✨ The scientific motto of one very specific universe 🧲💫 #humour

Hello, ISPhO fam! 👋 💧It's time to meet glug-glug physics: from your water bottle to a VOLCANO. 🌋 🙃 You know that sound when you flip a full bottle upside down and the water comes out all glug-glug? 😹 🫧 That's air bubbles fighting their way up through the neck, blocking the flow, then escaping – over and over again! 🔁 🔥 Inside a volcano, magma rises toward the surface. Gas bubbles (water, CO₂, we name it) grow, merge, and create the SAME pulsating chaos. 🫨💥 💧 Except instead of water, it's magma, фnd instead of an air bubble, it's supercritical fluid doing the most! 💨🎇 💥 Same physics. Just... more FIRE. 🔥🌋 #daily_ph

Hello, ISPhO squad! 👋 It's high time for another Nobel Backstage! 🌟 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1983) – told he was wrong for 30 YEARS 😤 At 19, he figured out that heavy stars must collapse into... something dark. 🌌 😡 But Sir Arthur Eddington publicly roasted him. For 30 years? Crickets. Nobody listened. 🦗 But Chandra? Kept grinding in Chicago – teaching, writing books, staying in his lane 📚✍️ Then BOOM – everyone realized he was RIGHT all along 🤯 🏆 Got the Nobel at 73. His first reaction? "I am not bitter." 🥲 (He was. And honestly? Valid.) 😌💅 🧪 For ISPhO peeps: 1⃣ The Chandrasekhar limit = 1.4 M⊙☀️ 2⃣ Problems = equate electron degeneracy pressure 🆚 gravity. One page of algebra. PURE GOLD. 📝✨ ☝The ultimate "I told you so" in physics history. 👑 #nobel_story

💬 — The Scientist's Speech — 💬 “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” © Albert Einstein 📚 So stop flexing how many formulas you've memorized! Einstein wasn't about that. Every day you face problems you've NEVER seen before. 🤯 💡You can't just recall – you gotta imagine your way out. ✨ 💭 Pro habit: when you need to train – daydream about physics. Seriously. Close your eyes and visualize the experiment, the setup, the motion. 🧪 🧠 That’s the real brain workout! ⚡ #quotes

Hello everyone! 👋 🚩 We're going out with an absolute MIND-BLOWER 🤯 🏖 Have you ever been chilling at the beach, watching those epic waves roll in, and thought: "Whoa, look at ALL that water moving toward me!" 👀 ☝Well... prepare to have your brain flipped upside down. You're WRONG. Dead wrong. ❌ 🌊 The water isn't going anywhere. The WAVE is. Let that sink in for a second 😹 ✨ In any wave, the particles (water molecules in this case) just oscillate up and down. That's it. ⬆️⬇️ 🚶👣 They don't travel with the wave – they stay in roughly the same spot, bobbing like a little buoy. ⛵ 🏃The ONLY thing that actually moves forward is the disturbance – the ENERGY. ⚡ 🏟️🙌 Think of it like this: you're in a massive stadium and the crowd does "the wave". People stand up and sit down in sequence, right? The wave travels around the stadium, but the people don't go anywhere. 🙋‍♂️ 💧Exact same energy with ocean waves. The water molecules just pass the vibe (and the energy) to their neighbors. 🤝 Easy, right? 😉 #60secs

🔥 – Avoiding Burnout – 🔥 Hello, ISPhO fam! 👋 👀 Check this out: a few more hacks to help you destroy burnout! 👊 Tip 1. Friend filter trick 🗣️ 👩‍🏫‍ Explain an ISPhO concept to a friend who DOESN’T do physics. 🤔 Sometimes your method needs reset, not your brain. Teaching = energy hack! Tip 2. Non-physics victory log 🥇 ✍️ Write out 10 wins NOT related to olympiad. 😊 Example: walked 10 min / helped someone / went to gym. Keeps you human → keeps burnout away! Tip 3. Micro-experiment day 🔬 👨‍🔬 Choose 1 past ISPhO lab task. 📱 Make it look like comics - draw it step by step. Make it playful and visual, and you succeed! 💬 Share your anti-burnout tricks! 🔥❌ #no_burnout

Humour is a two-body problem too, we guess 😉 So don't leave us hanging — drop your favorite memes in the comments! 👇 #humour

💎 – Scientific Experience – 💎 Hello everyone! 👋 Bet you've missed our Nobel Backstages 😉 👏 Ernest Rutherford (1908) — Nobel in Chemistry – LOL 🧪😅 ⚡ Rutherford got the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on radioactivity. He was a physicist. And he hated it. 😡❌ 💬 His famous quote: “All science is either physics or stamp collecting.” 👨‍🔬🏆 But he accepted the chemistry prize with a straight face — then went back to splitting atoms. 🧬 🗣 He also famously said: “Don't let me catch anyone talking about the universe in my department.” (Meanwhile, he discovered the atomic nucleus. 😅) 🧪 For ISPhO: His gold foil experiment is still a top‑tier problem — scattering angle 🆚 impact parameter. Derive it once, and you'll never forget. 🤭 #nobel_story

🎧 PHYSICS STUDY PLAYLIST! 📚 🎶 Music hits different for everyone – that's what makes it so good. 😌 🎸 It could be French electro, Russian folk, or K‑pop. Find the track that just fits you perfectly! 👌🎧 🔥 Energetic Physics Bangers ⚡ 1. Michael Jackson – "Smooth Criminal"🕴️ 2. BEARWOLF – "Phoenix" 🔥🐦‍🔥 3. Dua Lipa – "Swan Song" 🦢 4. Stray Kids – "Charmer" ❤✨ 5. Doechii – "What It Is (Block Boy)" 💥 🌿 Lo-Fi & Chill 🧘📘 1. Leon of Athens – "Aeroplane" ✈️ 2. Adele – "Easy On Me" 🛋️💧 3. Uma2rman – "To Say Goodbye" 💔 4. Stromae & Pomme – "Ma Meilleure Ennemie" 🌃🧲 5. Mk.gee – "Are You Looking Up" ✨🔭 And don't be shy – drop your favorite bangers in the comments below! 👇🔥 Let's build the ultimate ISPhO playlist together! 🧪🎶 #playlist

Yo ISPhO crew! 👋 Back at it again with the mind-blowing physics stuff! 🔥 👀 Picture this: you pour water into a glass. It chills. No funny business. But then it suddenly climbs the wall and flows over the edge. 🤯 👻 Sounds like a horror movie, right? Well, welcome to superfluidity! ✨ 🧊💧Here's the tea: at stupidly low temps (like -271°C), liquid helium becomes a superfluid. That means zero viscosity. It flows without ANY friction! 😲 🍯 Well, honey is super sticky and takes forever to pour. That's high viscosity. Now imagine the OPPOSITE — a liquid so slippery it slides out of a bottle faster than you can blink! 👀 ✨ 🦸‍♂️ That's a superfluid. It's like oil on ice, but a million times more extreme. So sneaky! 🫣 ❓Why does this happen? ❄ At super low temps, all the atoms lose their individuality. 😶 💪 They become one giant "super-atom" acting as a single unit. No collisions. No friction. Just smooth, effortless flow. ⛲ You know, sometimes physics just decides to go WILD! 🤷‍♂️🔥 #60secs

📬 NEWSLETTER #3 IS HERE – and this one hits DIFFERENT 🏅🔥 🥇The results are in, medals are finding their owners. 🎯🏁 ⚡Let's take a second to appreciate what just went down! 🌍💭 🧪 This issue is all about what makes physics TRULY special – it's a language that needs NO translation! 🌐✨ 📡 No matter where you're from, gravity hits the same, electrons do their thing, and a good problem stays a good problem! 💡 🔬 We're talking Higgs boson discovery Event Horizon Telescope and how international collabs make the impossible POSSIBLE. 🤝🌌 👨‍🏫 Plus a cool story about MIPT prof Alexey Kavokin and quantum polaritonics – 'cause big science happens EVERYWHERE! 🔦🧠 ❓And of course – a new Russian word: "krayeugolny kamen". 🧱🔥 Because curiosity? That's the cornerstone of ALL science. 💥 📢 Quick heads-up: if you spot any mistakes in names – you can let us know until June 6. 📅 📨 Just reach out through the usual channels! 📍This Newsletter (and all the others) live in the News section of our website. 📰✨ 👀 Go check it out, soak in the vibes, and remember: physics unites us all! 🌍🚀💫 #news

💬 — The Scientist's Speech — 💬 "Nothing in life is to be feared it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less." © Marie Curie 😬🚨 Lowkey freaked out before the experiment round? Yeah, same energy. Totally normal. But instead of hitting yourself with "I can't do this," try this: ask yourself — which exact step is messing me up? 🤔💡 👊💥 Break that fear into tiny bite-sized pieces, and boom — you can handle literally any wild ISPhO task in future! 📝🧪 Oh, and don't forget to touch grass sometimes 😎 📖 Check our #no_burnout section for actual chill tips! 👆 #quotes

Helooo! 👋 Everyday Physics is here!💡 😉 You know the drill: stir your tea, then pull the spoon out. The liquid keeps spinning — that’s inertia. 🥛 Add a bit of milk, and boom: tiny whirlpools, like a cozy apocalypse in your cup. ☕🌪 🌎 Now scale it up to ocean size. 🌎 💧 Underwater eddies — same thing, but 10–500 km across. And they don’t die after a few seconds. They party for WEEKS or even MONTHS. 🥳🎉 🌊 The Gulf Stream pinches off giant spinning rings of water. Warm ones head north, cold ones go south — carrying heat, fish food, and messing with Europe’s weather. Like, your rainy weekend? Kinda their fault. 😜🌦 ❓ Same physics. Different scale. 🌀 Your mug has vorticity. Oceans have winds, density, and Earth’s spin — plus the Coriolis force for a plot twist. So next time you stir your drink, just know — you’re doing baby ocean physics. 🌊🧉 #daily_ph

Closing Ceremony ISPhO 2026

The closing ceremony has begun! The videos are available on our Telegram channel and at the home page of the Olympiad ispho.mipt.ru Congratulations to the winners!