Is there a fifth force of nature? This question was asked by the presenters of ‘De Vooravond’ Fidan Ekiz and Renze Klamer to Nikhef-researcher Rasa Muller (KM3NeT) and…
Computer-architect Tristan Suerink van Nikhef vertelde bij BNR Nieuwsradio over de nieuwe Nederlandse supercomputer Snellius. Een prachtapparaat, vindt hij. En ja, die naam Snellius heeft hij bedacht. Terugluisteren…
Nikhef researchers Jacco de Vries, Marcel Merk and Martin Fransen were interviewed for the NTR science program Atlas about the recent LHCb research results. Watch the episode here…
Nikhef PhD Terry Chan of the ATLAS experiment explains his thesis research in een new Paperclip video. On the hunt for weird multi-flavor decays of the Z-boson. Hence…
Nikhef researchers Sijbrand de Jong and Charles Timmermans are interviewed by Govert Schilling for an article in Sky & Telescope about among other research, the Pierre Auger Observatory…
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…
Plans for the gravitational wave detector Einstein Telescope are featured extensively this week (March 12) in the American science magazine Science. ‘A radical idea’, the magazine calls the…
Today, Ka Wa Tsang will defend his PhD thesis named “The Final State – The fate of relativistic compact objects after merger” online at the University of Groningen. In…
On Tuesday 2 March, Evert Lemmen of Strukton and Miriam Luizink of NWO-I signed the building contract for the renovation of Nikhef. This, of course, took place in…
Theoretical physicist Juan Rojo of VU Amsterdam and Nikhef commented in the media on new research into the interior of the proton. It turns out that there is…
You think you knew what a physicist’s life is like? Well you have never seen it like this. Experience a typical day for a Czech physicist, as you…
Today, 11 February, is International Day of Women and Girls in Science. This year we have asked female researchers at Nikhef two questions: Who or what inspires you…
Today, Maria Bader will defend her PhD thesis named Seismic and Newtonian noise modeling for Advanced Virgo and Einstein Telescope at the Free University Amsterdam. In this newest…
In a laboratory in Paris, a French physicist has very accurately determined the value of a number that shapes the universe. The measurement offers new insight into the…
Renovation work on the Nikhef building in Amsterdam is expected to begin in the first half of 2021 and last until 2023. During this period, different parts of…
‘It’s just a matter of taking initiative, and you will get there’ For years, the HiSPARC outreach project has brought cosmic ray research into schools. But the last…
A word you can easily win a game of Scrabble with in Dutch: achtergrondzwaartekrachtsgolven or gravitational wave background in English. But what is this phenomenon? In an article…
In the latest edition of PAPERCLIP, PhD student Mick Mulder of Nikhef’s LHCb group explains what his thesis is about. Mick’s thesis defence is online on Friday 15th…
It all started with a Big Bang, but what exactly did it look like? A group of scientists will take it upon themselves to try to take a…
This timelapse from July until December captures the progress of the construction of the high-tech floor for ETpathfinder at Maastricht University’s Faculty of Science and Engineering, as well…
