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Het donkere-materie-experiment XENON1T in het ondergrondse Gran Sasso laboratorium in Italië stopt vandaag officieel om plaats te maken voor een nog gevoeliger experiment. Vanochtend werd een kraan opengedraaid…

De zwaartekrachtsgolfdetectoren LIGO in de VS en Virgo in Italië hebben in een alomvattende analyse van alle metingen sinds 2015 signalen van nog eens vier botsingen van zwarte…

De zwaartekrachtsgolfdetectoren LIGO in de VS en Virgo in Italië hebben in een alomvattende analyse van alle metingen sinds 2015 signalen van nog eens vier botsingen van zwarte…

After an outstanding performance, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the accelerator complex and the experiments are now stopping for two years for major improvements and upgrading. Geneva, 3…

In de LHC-versneller op deeltjeslab CERN in Genève doofden zondagmiddag de laatste loodbundels. Vanaf maandag zal de versneller twee jaar stilliggen voor upgrades van de LHC zelf en…

With great sorrow we learned that on August 28, after a short period of sickness, at the respectable age of 90 years, our friend and colleague Bert Diddens…

Using an internationally organized astronomical dragnet, scientist have for the first time located a source of high-energy cosmic neutrinos. The joint observation campaign was triggered by a single…

André Mischke (Nikhef, UU) was elected as Fellow of the Institute of Physics, an internationally leading scientific membership society working to advance physics. Fellowship is the highest level…

“Ik kan mijn boek nu met de hele wereld delen.” Deeltjesfysicus Ivo van Vulpen is trots nu Yale University Press zijn boek De melodie van de natuur vertaalt…

Science journalist and writer Martijn van Calmthout will become head of communication at the Dutch National Institute for Subatomic Physics Nikhef with effect from 1 September 2018. With…

Barbara Trzeciak from the Intitute for Subatomic Physics (UU) received the Young Scientist Award for the best experimental talk at the major international conference in the field of…

New results from the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC reveal how strongly the Higgs boson interacts with the heaviest known elementary particle, the top quark, corroborating…

Results from XENON1T, the world’s largest and most sensitive detector dedicated to a direct search for Dark Matter in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), are…

The observation of a nuclear process called neutrinoless double-beta decay might help researchers figure out what gives neutrinos their mass and why there’s far more matter than antimatter…

The Dutch contribution to the neutrino telescope KM3NeT has received an investment grant of 12.7 Million Euro. KM3NeT is one of the ten top research facilities in NWO’s…

The pioneering work in the field of Astroparticle Physics of Nikhef researcher Jörg Hörandel from the Radboud University Nijmegen is honored by the European Research Council with a…

The board of NWO’s Domain Science has granted funding for eight proposals in the NWO Physics Projectruimte. Pamela Ferrari (Nikhef) and Bob van Eijk (Nikhef, UT) receive a…

The nine NWO institutes have been evaluated by panels of independent, international experts. The experts praise the innovative research, the global position and the national role of the…

Before an ESA mission reaches the launch pad, it has to go through a number of approval procedures that ensure the mission´s readiness.  The future space-based gravitational wave…

Nikhef press release LIGO and Virgo make first detection of gravitational waves produced by colliding neutron stars Discovery marks first cosmic event observed in both gravitational waves and…