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SURF will host a European quantum computer in the Netherlands. The quantum computer will be located at Amsterdam Science Park, right next to the national supercomputer Snellius, with…

As part of 70 years CERN celebrations, from 9 – 16 October, Nikhef organised a roadshow along technical universities and colleges. The aim is to introduce CERN to…

Last Saturday, 5 October, Nikhef opened its doors during the Amsterdam Science Park Science Day (formerly: Open Day). It was the first time in the recently reopened building…

Neutrino – the poet among elementary particles Fascinated by an eccentric elementary ‘ghost particle’ (the neutrino), filmmakers Hannie van den Bergh and Jan van den Berg go on…

The Expostrip is an in-house exhibition about Nikhef’s research and is part of the new atrium in the renovated Nikhef building in Amsterdam. The Expostrip showcases the knowledge…

On 10 September 2008, CERN in Switzerland opened the particle accelerator. How does that device work? And what has this physics breakthrough meant for our daily lives? This…

Earlier in July, the XENONnT collaboration announced the first measurements of solar neutrinos with their dark matter detector. An article about these recent XENONnT results now appeared in…

Particle laboratory CERN in Geneva has been a source of discoveries since 1954, and it is also a magnet for researchers. Jos Engelen, former director of Nikhef and…

Leon Verreijt of the Augustinianum in Eindhoven has won the KNAW Education Prize 2024 for his school research project for which he built – partly at Nikhef –…

Master’s student in theoretical physics Eva Groenendijk of Nikhef and the University of Amsterdam spent over two months in Rome on a work grant for her research. She…

In the latest edition of PAPERCLIP, Nikhef master student Heleen Mulder (Theory) explains what her masters thesis ‘Scrutinizing the CKM anomaly within SMEFT and using sterile neutrinos’ is…

Nikhef master’s student Jaime del Palacio Lirola won first prize for his poster “What the f_0(980)?!” at the DRSTP Trends in Theory symposium last week. In this PAPERCLIP…

Nikhef PhD student Peter Gaemers (XENON/Dark Matter) explains his PhD thesis “Electronic Recoils in XENONnT” in this most recent  PAPERCLIP video. More information about his defense and his…

The Volkskrant interviewed Sascha Caron of Nikhef and Radboud University in Nijmegen about the rise of artificial intelligence in fundamental physics (in Dutch). The specialists recently met at…

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.

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…