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The Parool interviewed (in Dutch) PhD student and ATLAS researcher Dylan van Arneman of Nikhef and the UvA at CERN in Geneva about his work and life.

Master’s student in theoretical physics Eva Groenendijk of Nikhef and the University of Amsterdam is spending two months in Rome for her research with a work grant. In…

Nikhef director Stan Bentvelsen was a guest on the radio program Spijkers met Koppen on Saturday, April 13, to talk about the Einstein Telescope plans, but of course…

Nikhef PhD student Rahul Balasubramanian explains his thesis “Effectively going beyond the Standard Model. Combined interpretations of Higgs boson and electroweak measurements with the ATLAS experiment” in this…

Einstein Telescope is verbindend voorbeeld op docentendag

Nikhef dark matter researchers are featured in a new New Scientist paperback by science journalist Dorine Schenk. His interviews included Patrick Decowski, Auke-Pieter Colijn and Tina Pollmann for…

In the temporary exhibition Dichterbij het Zwarte Gat (Closer to the Black Hole), Museum Boerhaave in Leiden shows the wonderful world of the black hole. From the earliest…

On 12 March 2024, a masterclass in particle physics took place at Nikhef in an international context. Fifteen upper secondary school students were given the opportunity to learn…

Netherlands wants to bring giant underground telescope to Limburg – The experimental Einstein Telescope can measure gravitational waves, intended for the study of the universe. Black holes, the…

On Thursday 29 February, the Nikhef building in Amsterdam was festively reopened by NWO board chairman Marcel Levi. For this, he did a live particle experiment that ended…

Every month, Sophie Schot and former Nikhef PhD student Bob Stienen make a podcast in which they let a researcher at Radboud University speak. The topics cover the…

The journal Nature Communications interviewed ATLAS researcher Flavia de Almeida Dias from Nikhef about her work and academic life.

Nikhef’s IT architect, Tristan Suerink, recently has twice been a guest on tech podcasts. There he explains what Nikhef does, but especially why computers have such an important…

There are no technical or scientific show-stoppers to a new larger particle accelerator at CERN. So writes the scientific journal Nature this week about the mid-term review of…

This year, the Nobel Prize in physics went to the inventors of the attosecond laser. Ultra-short flashes of laser light. But how short is short, daily newspaper Trouw…

Really very striking and totally unprecedented, Nikhef researcher Charles Timmermans calls the impact, in May 2021, of a particle from the cosmos with an extremely high energy. He…

A huge underground detector is to measure gravitational waves and “listen” to the Big Bang. One promising candidate location is the border triangle between the Netherlands, Belgium and…

In a Klokhuis episode about the Internet, presenter Pascal visited the Nikhef data center in Amsterdam. There he explained exactly how the Internet works. Watch the episode (Dutch…

Particle physicist Jacco de Vries (UMaastricht/Nikhef) talks – in Dutch – about the research into a possible fifth force of nature at CERN in a new University of…

Science connects people from all over the world. “Because laws of nature are the same everywhere on earth,” CERN director Fabiola Gianotti told the newspaper NRC (in Dutch)….