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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)….

In a new Paperclip video, post-doc Luca Franco and PhD Ali Sidley explain a new paper from the ATLAS collaboration, on which they both collaborated. The Higgs particle…

De jongste aflevering (29) van de podcastserie Geschiedenis van de Natuurkunde van de Nijmeegse vakdidacticus Jan van Riswick gaat over de atoombom. Nikhef-voorlichter en schrijver Martijn van Calmthout…

CERN offers high school students around the world the chance to invent and perform a science experiment in one of CERN’s or DESY’s beamlines! In 2023, the Dutch…

On Saturday, October 7, Nikhef opened some of its doors during the Amsterdam Science Park Open Day 2023. It also provided a glimpse of the renovated Nikhef building…

Nikhef physicist Pawan Gupta (29) received his doctorate for his research on gravitational waves from tidal neutron stars. In NRC’s Jong Geleerd column (in Dutch), he talks about…

Nikhef PhD candidate Pawan Gupta (Gravitational Waves) explains his thesis “Probing compact objects with gravitational waves – Bounding dark charges on black holes and exploring gravitomagnetic tides on…

On 5th October, the Nikhef lab of the Dark Matter group which houses a small setup of the XENON experiment in Italy was highlighted in an episode of…

The Dutch daily newspaper Trouw spoke with Dutch physicists about why bigger accelerators are needed in the first place. Is bigger always better? Including Nikhef researcher (UTwente) Tristan…

Particle physicist Ivo van Vulpen of Nikhef comments in the Volkskrant (in Dutch) on measurements at CERN of falling antimatter. He talked to BNR Nieuwsradio Wetenschap Vandaag later…

This week, Nikhef launched a new website that encompasses all the outreach activities that Nikhef organises for different target audiences; teachers, secondary school students and the general public….

The KM3NeT neutrino telescope, one of Nikhef’s major experiments, features prominently on the cover of the 2022 board report of institute organization NWO-I. The annual report provides NWO-I’s…

Marco Kraan of the Dutch research institute Nikhef developed artistic impressions of gravitational wave detectors that are used around the world. How a mechanical designer makes art out…

Deep underground, near Geneva, scientists at CERN are putting physical theories to the test. Radboud University researchers, such as particle physicist Frank Filthaut, also use these unique facilities….

The proton is one of the most common particles in the universe. It is one of the main building blocks of an atom. You find them in the…