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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…

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…