In the latest edition of PAPERCLIP, Nikhef PhD student Milo Vermeulen explains his thesis called ‘A Blessing in Disguise — Characterisations of ProtoDUNE photon showers for neutrino measurements…
On October 18th, Nikhef director Stan Bentvelsen was a guest on BNR to talk about fundamental questions. In this episode (1 of 5 on fundamental questions) they discuss…
A stationary molecule is easy to study. In Groningen, a molecule was brought to rest with ice-cold gas and electric fields. Physicists have brought heavy molecules to rest…
On October 27, Govert Schilling and Patrick Decowski were guests in the Nikhef lunch-talk program. Science writer Govert Schilling wrote a book about dark matter hunters, such as…
In the latest edition of PAPERCLIP, Bob Stienen (ATLAS, Nikhef) explains his PhD thesis called ‘Working in High-Dimensional Parameter Spaces: Applications of machine learning in particle physics phenomenology‘….
On behalf of Limburg Bouwt, Michael Galenkamp, bachelor student Physics & Astronomy of Leiden University made this video about ETpathfinder. For this he interviewed two Nikhef researchers involved…
In this newest edition of PAPERCLIP Kasper van Dam (HiSPARC) explains his thesis called “HiSPARC: A Scintillating Experiment”. Kasper defended his thesis earlier this month. Read more about…
In this ‘Physics’ article, women who have received major physics prizes share their thoughts about what the awards mean to them and about how they help in bringing…
As TikTok dethrones Facebook as the most downloaded app, with 850 million downloads in 2020 alone, Craig Edwards looks at how high-energy physicists are taking advantage of the…
Following the Nobel Prize in Physics awarded last week to Klaus Hasselmann, Syukuro Manabe and Giorgio Parisi, Nikhef researcher Rasa Muller was a guest at Atlas on NTR…
GRAPPA physicist Gianfranco Bertone presented his new book TUSSEN TWEE ONEINDIGHEDEN (The upcoming revolution in our understanding of the cosmos) in a Nikhef lunchtime talk last week. This…
The simplest atomic nucleus, the hydrogen nucleus, seems to consist of three building blocks. But if you look closer, it is a bubbling mess of other particles that…
In the newest edition of PAPERCLIP, Jort Sinninghe Damsté (Theory, Nikhef) talks about his PhD thesis called “Subleading effects of soft emissions | A study of next-to-leading power…
Do you have a master’s degree in physics or have you almost graduated? Are you fascinated by dark matter, neutrinos or Higgs boson physics? As a PhD student…
On 17 and 18 September, CERN is launching an annual two-day multidisciplinary science innovation forum and public event. Sparks!, the serendipity forum at CERN, will bring together renowned…
Last Friday, August 6, the World Wide Web celebrated its 30th anniversary. Nikhef pensionado Kees Huyser was interviewed by RTL news and the Algemeen Dagblad about his role…
ETpathfinder will be a testing ground for the development of new and better technologies for gravitational wave detectors, and it is currently being built in Maastricht. That’s why…
Particle physicist Clara Nellist of Nikhef and Radboud University Nijmegen is currently casting a lot of steam with short selfie videos about particles and CERN on the online…
The corona era has made scientists think about how they organize conferences. Is flying across the world, away from home for weeks at a time, without many new…
On June 21, Nikhef PhD Mike Sas of the ALICE experiment at CERN defends his thesis “Illuminating Light” at Utrecht University on detecting photons from a quark-gluon plasma….