The deepest mysteries of the neutrino and the true nature of dark matter. These are two research topics being explored by Nikhef physicists who are receiving ENW-M grants from NWO this week. www.nikhef.nl/en/news/nwo-...

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97 A mathematician by training, he acquired a devoted following with songs that set sardonic lyrics to music that was often maddeningly cheerful.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

Meanwhile I made it to Basel with only one hour delay which was already created on the first train from Kleve. None of my further connections ran on time, but luckily there were earlier trains delayed to connect to. Now in Swiss hands.

Yes indeed it was RRB RE10 which was delayed this time. Now with 300kmh towards Frankfurt airport and hoping for the best

No I didn’t. A 34 minute transfer time was not enough to deal with your 37 minute delay on the Kleve-Düsseldorf train. I don’t remember a trip without delays, your reliability is terrible.

Almost in Geldern now, running 20 minutes late. There is still hope.

Another day of adventure, with @bahn.de from Kleve to Geneva. So far we have 14 minutes delay because of a signal fault and another train taking priority. Fortunately I have 35 minutes in Düsseldorf to make my connection. Fingers crossed.

Wetenschapsfinancier NWO heeft aan drie Nikhef-onderzoekers Veni-beurzen toegekend om hun baanbrekende ideeën verder uit te werken. Zij ontvangen elk maximaal 320.000 euro, goed voor drie jaar werk.
www.nikhef.nl/news/veni-be...

Nothing new but Higgs. We entered a whole new energy regime and nothing new.

Profielwerkstuk maken? Welkom op Nikhef! www.nikhef.nl/evenement/pr...

In de Diepte: Reis naar de kern In de Diepte is terug! Na Terug naar de Oerknal en Baan door het Brein is het nu tijd voor een nieuw avontuur: Reis naar de kern. Een fascinerende duik in d...

Nieuwe serie @bnr.nl wetenschap podcast 'In de Diepte' van @connorclerx.bsky.social. 'De reis naar de kern': 5 x 20 min over deeltjes, quantum en onderzoek op CERN. Luister mee!

Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/58fY8Bd...

Apple: podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/i...

Website: www.bnr.nl/podcast/inde...

Soms zit het niet tegen bij Deutsche Bahn. Trein Mannheim Köln 1 uur vertraging maar eerdere snelle verbinding was ook vertraagd en die kon ik nog net halen. Aankomst volgens originele ticket.

Ik ken het gevoel

Ja, maar vanuit Nijmegen is het wel om

Train to Geneva, and again a day full of delays. Germany needs to fix its infrastructure.

The National Academy of Sciences particle physics report begins w/ Rec 1: The US should host the world’s highest-energy particle collider around the middle of the century. This requires the immediate creation of a national muon collider R&D program to enable the construction of a demonstrator... 🧪⚛️

Now we're talking! Eindelijk serieuze concurrentie voor het vliegtuig voor reizen naar Geneve.

Twins: Ariadna and Patricia Ribes will defend their theses on June 24th at Radboud University. About 500 pages each.

What if he never left the democratic party and is now trying to take them out in an undercover operation?

Kinematic measurements are closing in on the neutrino mass The lightest massive particles are clear evidence of physics beyond the standard model. But the masses and their implications remain to be understood.

"The latest KATRIN result, based on a quarter of the data that the experiment will ultimately collect, still provides only an upper bound on the neutrino mass. But that bound has been slashed nearly in half, from 0.8 eV in the previous analysis,1 released three years ago, to 0.45 eV." 🧪

‘2025 wordt voor ons een heel spannend jaar’ Neutrino’s die vlak na de oerknal ontstonden, zogeheten relic neutrino’s, kunnen inzicht bieden in het ontstaan van het heelal. Deeltjesfysicus Nicolo de Groot zet alles op alles om ze voor het eerst ...

Neutrino’s die vlak na de oerknal ontstonden, zogeheten relic neutrino’s, kunnen inzicht bieden in het ontstaan van het heelal. Lees ons interview met deeltjesfysicus @nicolodegroot.bsky.social

www.newscientist.nl/nieuws/2025-...

Ashley McDougall wins 2024 Kluyver Prize for dissertation - Nikhef Australian-born physicist Ashley McDougall has won the annual Jan Kluyver Prize for her thesis on her Nikhef research of the Higgs particle. This was announced on Monday at...

Australian-born physicist Ashley McDougall has won the annual Jan Kluyver Prize for her thesis on her Nikhef research of the Higgs particle. Congratulations, Ashley! www.nikhef.nl/en/news/ashl...

Renew Europe welcomes EU-UK reset as a step toward… - Renew Europe Renew Europe welcomes today’s landmark EU-UK summit in London and the announcement of the beginning of a reset in relations – a long-overdue and necessary…

#RenewEurope welcomes EU-UK reset as a step toward strategic re-alignment in a new geopolitical era

The new EU–UK Defence Partnership is a vital reset

Let's build a stronger, more prosperous future together 🇪🇺🇬🇧

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www.reneweuropegroup.eu/news/2025-05...

News item by @nikhef.bsky.social on our new search for double-Higgs production at @atlasexperiment.bsky.social. For the first time, we reach a 1 sigma sensitivity in 308/fb of LHC data!

www.nikhef.nl/en/news/37014/

Go have a look at our dedicated Jobs site jobs.nikhef.nl for all the current vacancies at Nikhef and maybe you will come join us soon?

‘Tis the season of #physics 💫

“Stable" particle beams returned to the Large Hadron Collider at 13.51 CEST today, marking the start of the 2025 physics data-taking season, the fourth of the #LHCRun3.

2025 EUROPEAN SCHOOL OF HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS

The 2025 European School of High-Energy Physics (ESHEP2025) will take place in Benasque, Spain, 15-28 October 2025. indico.cern.ch/e/eshep2025 The deadline for applications is 16 May 2025. The school has a strong tradition and Benasque is a special place.

Beautiful and touching stories about the role of Native American and First Nations soldiers in the liberation of the Netherlands in Liberation Museum in Groesbeek.

PhD position with the CMS experiment

We are hiring a PhD student working on analysis of CMS Run 3 data with focus on the search for Higgs boson pair production through decays of heavy resonances in final states with multiple b quarks, and work on detectors for the CMS upgrade.

More info: v22.desy.de/e67416/recor...

Why many funding schemes harm rather than support research - Nature Human Behaviour Nature Human Behaviour - Why many funding schemes harm rather than support research

This time of year, I review a lot of grant proposals. By now, I know about the inefficiencies in the system. For example, the amount of time it takes to write and review the grant is about the same as the number of hours of work that the grant awards www.nature.com/articles/s41... what to do?