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The tech website Innovation Origins explored the creative plans circulating for the Einstein Telescope, the largest detector for gravitational waves that will certainly be built in Europe and…

Studium Generale Leiden has broadcast a series of public lectures on particle physics online in recent weeks. On Feb. 15, Nikhef researcher and Professor of Science Communication Ivo…

The May issue of the American astronomy monthly magazine Sky & Telescope carries an extensive story on the KM3NeT project in the Mediterranean Sea. Dutch journalist Govert Schilling…

The Dutch newspaper Het Parool interviewed Nikhef researcher Tristan du Pree in Geneva about the ongoing hunt for new particles with the ATLAS experiment at CERN. “The beauty…

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…

The Dutch magazine De Ingenieur has selected Nikhef PhD student Jesse van Dongen, formerly an engineer at the institute, as one of the fifteen engineering talents of 2023….

This year’s Olga Igonkina travel scholarship has been awarded to master’s student at the University of Amsterdam Pranati Kharbana. The Indian physics student will receive a sum of…

The ALICE experiment at CERN this week published a study of antimatter remaining after the Big Bang and concludes that it has not been ruled out. In an…

New Scientist editor-in-chief Jim Jansen looked at work on the ET Pathfinder and preparations for the Einstein Telescope in Maastricht with Nikhef physicist Gideon Koekoek. His video was…

The particle accelerator at CERN shut down weeks earlier than normal in winter to save energy – and costs. NRC asked physicists from Nikhef and others for ideas…

The American science magazine Quanta is running a major article this month on FORM, a computer algebra program widely used in theoretical particle physics. The program is the…

For its weekend supplement, the daily newspaper Trouw spoke with Nikhef researcher Patrick Decowski about the hunt for dark matter and delicately reminded him of his statement a…

Nikhef’s research program into the properties and sources of neutrinos plays a role in two newly published booklets, both from the stable of New Scientist. Both books are…

The November issue of the Dutch Journal of Physics NTvN features two articles on particle physics, written by researchers at Nikhef. The occasion is the restart of the…

Great things can happen when high school students get involved with scientific research, and that is exactly what CERN and DESY want to achieve by organizing the Beamline…

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…