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In Pisa on Tuesday, the signatures were put on an agreement by which NWO-I becomes an official member of EGO, the European cooperation in the field of gravitational…

Associate professor of experimental physics in Groningen and Nikhef researcher Steven Hoekstra receives a VICI grant for his work on the fundamental properties of the electron. This was…

The National Institute for Subatomic Physics Nikhef is deeply shocked by the Russian military attack on Ukraine and joins the sanctions and measures against Russia and Belarus.  Nikhef…

Utrecht-based particle physicist and Nikhef researcher dr. Marco van Leeuwen will be the new spokesperson for the ALICE experiment at CERN. This was decided by the collaboration on…

University lecturer and Nikhef researcher Jessica Steinlechner of Maastricht University is awarded a starting grant from the European Research Council for her research on advanced mirrors for gravitational…

In the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of southern France, a start has been made last week with the dismantling of the ANTARES neutrino telescope. The detector at…

The Einstein Telescope project proposal meets the entry criteria of the Dutch National Growth Fund and has been submitted to the Advisory Committee. The Ministers of Economic Affairs…

Theoretical physicist Eric Laenen of Nikhef has been appointed vice-president of the CERN-council, the highest governing body of the European particle lab. This was announced in Geneva. Laenen…

The ATLAS experiment at CERN has for the first time found a real difference between the way the higgs particle decays to charm quarks or botton quarks. Such…

PhD student Lex Greeven of Nikhef and Maastricht University has won the audience award for the best poster at the annual physics conference in Veldhoven, the Netherlands. This…

In the collisions of protons in the LHC accelerator at CERN, it is not only the up- and down-quarks in the proton that matter, but sometimes heavier quarks…

As of January 2022, Nikhef researcher Ivo van Vulpen will be appointed as professor by special appointment in science communication at the Leiden Institute of Physics (LION). Van…

Directors and staff of the National Institute for Subatomic Physics Nikhef wish you a happy and joyful year 2022. The institute is closed from december 27th 2021 until…

Four young promising scientists from Nikhef receive a Veni grant from NWO. They will receive up to 280 thousand euros to further develop new research ideas. In this…

Maria Bader wins the Jan Kluyver Prize 2021 for the best English-language summary in her thesis on seismic noise models for gravity wave detectors such as Advanced Virgo…

In the Mediterranean Sea near Toulon, four new detector lines were added to neutrino telescope KM3NeT in the deep sea last week. There, a total of ten lines…

The LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors in the US and Italy have added a new chapter to the growing catalog of space-time quakes. In total, the list…

Demissionary Minister of Education, Culture and Science Ingrid van Engelshoven will open ETpathfinder in Maastricht this afternoon. The state-of-the-art physics laboratory will serve as a testing ground for…

Particle researcher and professor Bob van Eijk, just retired, has always been a hands-on man. At ATLAS. At the University of Twente. In school projects. “Give me something…

On 31 October, the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science Ingrid van Engelshoven submitted an application for the Einstein Telescope to the National Growth Fund, supported by…