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….
In the week of 7 June, the Belgian TV Limburg channel broadcast the documentary series ‘Einstein in Limburg’. They showed a 3-minute episode about different aspects of the…
The behaviour of the smallest particles in the cosmos is described by the Standard Model. Does this model hold up, now that there seems to be a strange…
Nikhef PhD Marko Stamenkovic was part of the team that is hunting for higgsbosons decaying to charm-quarks. In this Nikhef PAPERCLIP video he explains the basics in just…
Nikhef IT-architect Tristan Suerink sprak met het e-zine Techzine over high performance computing met de nieuwe Lenovo-apparatuur.
Nikhef PhD student Pepijn Bakker of the ATLAS experiment defended his thesis ‘Lighting the way – A model-independent multilepton analysis to search for new physics with the ATLAS…
Het maandblad KIJK zette de handigste toepassingen van de Large Hadron Collider in Genève op een rij. Van watermeter tot spoorboekje.
On May 10, Nikhef PhD student Fabrizia Canfora defended her thesis called “Cosmic-Ray Composition Measurements Using Radio Signals” online at Radboud University Nijmegen, and in this latest edition…
“It could have been a setting from a science fiction film, but it really is Maastricht University’s new research lab,”. This is how the video report about ETpathfinder…