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Innoseis, an Amsterdam-based developer of high-tech vibration sensors on a chip, has secured six million euros in private investment through the investment firm FORWARD.one. This was announced today….

At CERN, the detectors at the LHC are conducting their final round of measurements before a three-year shutdown for a major overhaul of the accelerator. The LHC, the…

Researchers from the LHCb experiment announced today at the Beauty2026 conference in Maastricht the discovery of a long-sought-after third particle containing two charm quarks. This omega-cc particle was…

If he were given a bag of money to spend on a particle accelerator, Jorgen D’Hondt wouldn’t automatically put it toward more particles and higher collision energies. Perhaps…

This week, the international conference Beauty2026 is being held in Maastricht under the auspices of Nikhef. Around a hundred specialists in the field of quark physics are participating…

The collaborating gravitational-wave detectors around the world—LIGO, Virgo, and Kagra—have added 161 new detections to their catalog of scientific results. The detections date from the period April 2024…

At a special meeting today in Budapest, CERN’s member states updated their vision for the future of particle physics. A future, larger particle accelerator at CERN is now…

It is unknown whether the electric charge inside elementary particles is perfectly symmetrically distributed around their spin axis. Theoretical physicists from Nikhef and other institutions have now developed…

The collaborating gravitational-wave detectors LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA have successfully used an AI method for the first time to extract signals from partially malfunctioning detectors. In a new…

Former Nikhef PhD candidate Clara Gatius Oliver has won the 2025 Jan Kluyver Prize for the best English-language summary of a dissertation. The prize was awarded at the…

The Province of Limburg is contributing 4 million euros to the upgrade of the ETpathfinder in Maastricht. The provincial government has announced this. With this expansion, the ETpathfinder…

If Europe decides to build a larger successor to the LHC accelerator, particle physicists will have to thoroughly rethink their methods of discovery. That is the conclusion reached…

In one of the research corridors at Nikhef in Amsterdam, work is underway on a compact new lab for research into ultra-cold mirrors for gravitational-wave detectors. The coldest…

The Dutch government is allocating 25 million euros for the proposed expansion of ETPathfinder in Maastricht. The expansion aims to transform the existing gravitational wave detection research facility…

Ben Knapen, former Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, has been appointed Special Envoy for the Einstein Telescope. This decision was made by the Dutch Council of Ministers upon…

Following a successful four-day campaign at sea last week, five new lines of KM3NeT detector spheres have been successfully deployed on the deep-sea seabed off the coast of…

On Monday in Delft, the projects for major scientific infrastructure – which had previously been selected for the national GWI 2024 roadmap – were presented in a festive…

INTERVIEW German gravitational wave physicist Maria Haney of Nikhef has been appointed professor by special appointment at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at VU University Amsterdam. Haney has…

An intense debate has arisen within the European particle physics community regarding the name for the proposed new particle accelerator, the FCC. “Future Circular Collider sounds too much…

INTERVIEW Starting in april, particle physicist Flavia de Almeida Dias has been appointed as new programme leader of the ATLAS experiment at Nikhef. De Almeida Dias, who is…