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In this article, Nikhef researchers Sijbrand de Jong and Eric Laenen are interviewed about the Standard Model: It is the most successful theory in physics, but after fifty…

On 23 May, Minister Dijkgraaf of Education, Culture and Science visited Maastricht. He also visited the gravitational wave laboratory ETpathfinder. In addition to the official part of the…

On Tuesday, May 17, Nikhef director Stan Bentvelsen explained on TV together with NWO chair Marcel Levi why the Einstein Telescope is such a beautiful and important project…

On the eve of the restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Diederik Jekel of the NTR science program Atlas was one of the last people…

Several Nikhef physicists have responded and explained in the media to news of new measurements of the mass of the W particle. Those measurements fall outside the expectations…

The university computing collaboration SURF, together with Nikhef, Maastricht University and CERN, is investigating the possibilities of using quantum computers in the LHCb experiment in Geneva. SURF reports…

In this newest edition of PAPERCLIP, Marco de Beurs explains his thesis named “A top portal to new physics”. Marco did his research in the ATLAS-group at Nikhef….

On 15 March 2022, an international masterclass in particle physics was held at Nikhef. 17 students from the upper grades of VWO had the opportunity to learn more…

In the latest edition of PAPERCLIP, Nikhef PhD student Marko Stamenkovic explains his thesis called ‘Charming Higgs Bosons‘. Marko worked on his thesis in the ATLAS programme at…

In the latest edition of PAPERCLIP, Nikhef PhD student Brian Moser explains his thesis called ‘The Beauty and the Boost: a Higgs Boson Tale’. Brian worked on his…

Science website NEMOKennislink (Dutch only) visited the ET Pathfinder under construction in Maastricht. A test rig from Nikhef for the gravitational wave detectors of the future. For example,…

In the latest edition of PAPERCLIP, Nikhef PhD student Alice Alfonsi explains her thesis called ‘A tale of a new generation’. Alice worked on her thesis in the…

In February 1992, a website went live for the first time in the Netherlands. That website was www.nikhef.nl, from the National Institute for Nuclear and High Energy Physics…

World record: physicists put neutrino on ‘scale’ and record staggeringly low mass With an unprecedentedly precise experiment in Germany, physicists have determined the upper limit of the mass…

Today, 11 February 2022 is International Day of Women and Girls in Science. In order to achieve full and equal access to and participation in science for women…

Every year in January, the University of Amsterdam hosts the Viva Fysica event: a physics conference for teachers and students. At Viva Fysica, researchers talk about what is…

The Discovery Museum in Kerkrade made a series of three episodes about gravitational waves and the Einstein Telescope. They worked together with Gideon Koekoek of Nikhef and Maastricht…

In an article in Physics Today, scientists including Clara Nellist of the ATLAS group at Nikhef talk about their TikTok account and how they gained a large number…

KRO-NCRV’s Spraakmakers dived into science; to the seabed. On January 5, Rasa Muller spoke with Jim Jansen and Erik van Sebille about the smallest particles from the time…

Physicists are searching in a sea of gravitational waves for the first stars in the universe, which were able to grow much heavier than their descendants. When terrestrial…