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In fifteen months’ time, the world’s largest particle accelerator should be running at maximum energy for the first time. At CERN, the year 2021 will be marked by…

Management and staff of the National Institute for Subatomic Physics Nikhef wish you a happy and meaningful 2021. The institute will be closed from 25 December to 4…

Researchers from Utrecht University and Nikhef, among others, are publishing a study today in the leading journal Science that addresses no less than two essential questions in astrophysics….

Former Nikhef PhD student Melissa van Beekveld is the 2020 winner of the Kluyver Prize for the best summary of a thesis. In September she obtained her doctorate…

As of 2021, the National Institute for Subatomic Physics Nikhef is an official member of EGO, the cooperation within Europe in the field of gravitational wave research. This…

Researchers of the ALICE experiment at CERN have found a new way to test the theory of the strong nuclear force. In Nature they will publish measurements of…

Nikhef physicist Ivo van Vulpen and his Leiden colleague Sense Jan van der Molen have won the first ENW communication prize from research financier NWO for their wall…

A Dutch winding coil technique has become standard for placing detector lines for neutrino research in the Mediterranean Sea at kilometer depth. An overview article on the approach…

Two research projects by Nikhef and others receive support from the Dutch Research Agenda (NWA). One project wants to illuminate the mystery of black holes from all sides,…

The designs are almost finished and the plans are becoming more and more specific. And it is expected to start in the spring of 2021: the renovation of…

Scientists who don’t really feel like students and education? No way, brand new UvA professor and Nikhef researcher Marcel Vreeswijk says. Education, he stresses a few weeks after…

Four young Nikhef researchers will receive a Veni grant to set up their own research over the next three years. This was announced by science financier NWO on…

The international collaboration of gravitational wave detectors LIGO and Virgo in the US and Europe have published a new catalog of their observations. After a year of complex…

In the latest issue of the Nikhef magazine DIMENSIES, the people behind the work are at the centre of attention. Particle physics is a matter of technology, measurements,…

Rejected signals from the underground XENON detector in Italy are the raw material for a new search for dark matter. Nikhef researchers Marieke Postma and Auke-Pieter Colijn will…

Self-learning computers will become an important tool in the search for unknown particles and particle processes. This is the conclusion of a group of researchers from Nikhef and…

Starting this month the SURF Open Innovation Lab (SOIL) has introduced a new experimental graphical computing cluster that is accessible to all Dutch scientists. The cluster is unique…

Due to the precautionary measures taken to minimise the spread of the coronavirus, Nikhef is open only to a limited extent. External guests can only access the building by…

The KM3Net neutrino telescope under construction in the deep sea off the coast near the French town of Toulon is now joined by a large NIOZ instrument that…

The future Einstein Telescope and the upgraded LHCb particle detector at CERN may make use of quantum computers. Maastricht University will investigate the possibilities together with computer company…