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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…

A red-hot soup of minuscule particles continually colliding with each other. According to the prevailing theories, that is what our universe looked like immediately after the Big Bang….

Source: Volkskrant A giant (partly Dutch) antenna field on a plateau in China is going to trace the origin of extremely energetic particles raining down on Earth from…

Great things can happen when high school students get involved with innovative science, and that is exactly the environment that CERN wants to create for them by organizing…

On 8 November, Minister Van Engelshoven opened gravitational wave lab ETpathfinder in Maastricht. This prompted the TV programme Atlas to make a report on the developments around the…

On November 8, Ingrid van Engelshoven – demissionary minister of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) – opened ETpathfinder. She did this with a push of a button from…

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…