Nikhef’s sustainability ambition was announced today on the Nikhef website: Nikhef climate neutral in 2030. The development rests on five pillars that were chosen based on the CO2…
Science writer Govert Schilling sailed on the Mediterranean Sea with the ship that lowers lines of the giant KM3NeT neutrino telescope to the sea floor. Many of those…
“My brain doesn’t need to be kept in strong water, I’ve already done that myself. In abundance and to my complete satisfaction.” So said Dutch mental arithmetic prodigy…
The proton seems an ordinary building block of matter, but in reality turns out to be a particle full of surprises. Nikhef theorist and VU professor Juan Rojo…
Nikhef physicist Frank Linde was one of the discoverers of the Higgs particle ten years ago, and now he is trying with all his might to get the…
The prestigious American science journal QuantaMagazine published an article on Nikhef researcher Juan Rojo’s new studies of the interior of the proton. Earlier this summer, he and an…
Last Saturday, October 1, Nikhef opened some of its doors during the Amsterdam Science Park Open Day 2022. Some doors, because the Nikhef building is currently undergoing an…
Nikhef particle researcher Ivo van Vulpen spoke for an hour (in Dutch) with the creators of the upbeat weekly podcast Verrukkelijke Wetenschap. With just one question: what are…
Three years ago Bob Stienen, at the time a Nikhef PhD student, started his YouTube channel where he playfully explains particle physics in great detail. In recent weeks,…
On July 4 and 5 we celebrated, respectively, the 10-year anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs particle and the start of Run3 of the Large Hadron Collider…
Does a Higgs boson feel other Higgs bosons? In this new PAPERCLIP video Carlo Pandini explains what his ATLAS paper is about.
During the festivities surrounding the 10-year old Higgs boson, Nikhef had prepared a special projection for the evenings on the tallest building in Amsterdam Science Park, Digital Realty….
On the 4th of July 2022 it is 10 years ago that the discovery of the Higgs boson was announced. Nikhef researcher Tristan du Pree tells you all…
Lodewijk Nauta, Phd at Nikhef, defended his thesis on Wednesday 8 June 2022 at the University of Amsterdam. Lodewijk is a PhD student in the KM3NeT group at…
At the end of May, Nikhef-PhD Anders Rehult won the award for best poster at the annual Trends in Theory conference of the Dutch Research School of Theoretical…
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…
