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Do you have a master’s degree in physics or have you almost graduated? Are you fascinated by dark matter, neutrinos or Higgs boson physics? As a PhD student…

Plans for the gravitational wave detector Einstein Telescope are featured extensively this week (March 12) in the American science magazine Science. ‘A radical idea’, the magazine calls the…

Today, Ka Wa Tsang will defend his PhD thesis named “The Final State – The fate of relativistic compact objects after merger” online at the University of Groningen. In…

On Tuesday 2 March, Evert Lemmen of Strukton and Miriam Luizink of NWO-I signed the building contract for the renovation of Nikhef. This, of course, took place in…

Theoretical physicist Juan Rojo of VU Amsterdam and Nikhef commented in the media on new research into the interior of the proton. It turns out that there is…

You think you knew what a physicist’s life is like? Well you have never seen it like this. Experience a typical day for a Czech physicist, as you…

Today, 11 February, is International Day of Women and Girls in Science. This year we have asked female researchers at Nikhef two questions: Who or what inspires you…

Today, Maria Bader will defend her PhD thesis named Seismic and Newtonian noise modeling for Advanced Virgo and Einstein Telescope at the Free University Amsterdam. In this newest…

In a laboratory in Paris, a French physicist has very accurately determined the value of a number that shapes the universe. The measurement offers new insight into the…

Renovation work on the Nikhef building in Amsterdam is expected to begin in the first half of 2021 and last until 2023. During this period, different parts of…

‘It’s just a matter of taking initiative, and you will get there’ For years, the HiSPARC outreach project has brought cosmic ray research into schools. But the last…

A word you can easily win a game of Scrabble with in Dutch: achtergrondzwaartekrachtsgolven or gravitational wave background in English. But what is this phenomenon? In an article…

In the latest edition of PAPERCLIP, PhD student Mick Mulder of Nikhef’s LHCb group explains what his thesis is about. Mick’s thesis defence is online on Friday 15th…

It all started with a Big Bang, but what exactly did it look like? A group of scientists will take it upon themselves to try to take a…

This timelapse from July until December captures the progress of the construction of the high-tech floor for ETpathfinder at Maastricht University’s Faculty of Science and Engineering, as well…

After seven successful editions, CERN Beamline for Schools 2021 is ready to start. This physics competition offers high-school students the unique opportunity to conduct a physics experiment in…

In this most recent edition of PAPERCLIP Broos Vermeulen explains his PhD thesis, Search for production of charginos and neutralinos with a small mass gap to the lightest…

On 27 November, the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) and the Virgo detector virtually open their doors. Discover the wonderful world of gravitational waves and sign up for this…

Video recordings of Nikhef’s cloud chamber play a central role in an art project by the Dutch-Ukrainian artist Alexandra Hunts. Recently the project COSMIC_RADIATION_11COBALTBLUE had its premiere in…

The video channel of RTV 3Heuvelland, the regional broadcaster for the municipalities of Eijsden-Margraten, Gulpen-Wittem and Vaals, has shared a video about Einstein Telescope. In it, Nikhef researcher…