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Inspiring science and society was the theme of today’s meeting at the Rode Hoed in Amsterdam, organised by Nikhef with representatives from government, business and education. Nikhef is…

Gravitational wave detectors LIGO and Virgo have observed two recent collisions of black holes that appear to originate from previous collisions.  The paper today in the Astrophysical Journal…

Artist Jop Vissers Vorstenbosch and client Nikhef unveiled a spectacular dynamic light painting today in the lobby of the newly renovated institute in Amsterdam. The work measures three…

A new laboratory in Maastricht will make the technology from the Einstein Telescope research accessible to the business community. Over the coming years, the new ETpathfinder Smart Skills…

Science funding organization NWO has awarded Veni grants to three Nikhef researchers to further develop their groundbreaking ideas. Each will receive a maximum of €320,000, sufficient for three…

SURF is moving a significant part of its network from a commercial data center to the data center of Nikhef, one of its cooperative members and scientific partners….

Measurements with the ATLAS detector of proton-proton collisions in the LHC accelerator at CERN show that top-quarks sometimes establish a short-lived connection with their antiparticle. In doing so,…

Nikhef director Jorgen D’Hondt kicked off the celebration of the institute’s 50th anniversary with a special video message. In it, he emphasises the family feeling within Nikhef. The…

Management and staff of the National Institute for Subatomic Physics Nikhef wish you a prosperous 2025. Due to Christmas and New Year, the institute will be closed from…

The latest issue of DIMENSIES is all about change. This issue features Stan Bentvelsen, who has been at the helm of the Nikhef partnership for the past ten…

Four young promising scientists from Nikhef receive a Veni grant from NWO. They will receive up to € 320,000 to further develop new research ideas. A total of…

Neutrino researcher Rasa Muller will receive the Kluyver Prize for the best English-language abstract in her dissertation, published in 2023. The award was presented Monday, May 13, at…

Italy’s Virgo gravitational wave detector is officially participating again in the hunt for space-time oscillations since Wednesday afternoon. At 5 p.m. in Pisa, glasses were raised to the…

On May 29, 2023, one of the two U.S. LIGO detectors recorded a gravitational wave with unexpected properties. The source is believed to be a collision of a…

A prototype of the world’s first muon accelerator will be on display at the new Nikhef Expostrip in Amsterdam starting Monday. The large copper component replaces the current…

NWO board chairman Marcel Levi officially reopened the renovated main building of the National Institute for Subatomic Physics Nikhef in Amsterdam on Thursday afternoon. The Nikhef building, he…

Excavation work for the new DUNE neutrino detector has been completed at a former mine in Lead, South Dakota. More and more, Nikhef is involved in DUNE.  Fermilab…

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam researcher Mara Senghi Soares is national program leader for the LHCb experiment at Nikhef as of Nov. 1. Soares takes over the position from Nikhef…

Nikhef is focusing on projects in subatomic physics where the Dutch contribution can make a difference. This is reflected in the new multi-year strategy published online today. The…

Nikhef physicists at the University of Groningen have developed a technique to capture nanoparticles and characterize their shape and mass. This may be useful for the hunt for…