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Princess of Orange visits AMOLF

On Thursday, 16 April, the Princess of Orange visited Amsterdam Science Park, including AMOLF. The theme was Amsterdam Tech City, with a special focus on AI and sustainable solar energy. 

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Princess Amalia visits the AMOLF research institute. The photo shows her with Mayor Femke Halsema and research director Albert Polman in the SolarNL lab at AMOLF.
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Stan Heijnen

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Stan Heijnen is an instrument maker at Nikhef

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Stan Heijnen
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Robbelien Kooistra

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Strategic policy adviser for valorisation and innovation at the NWO-I office in Utrecht

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Robbelien working on her laptop
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Jorn Veenendaal

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Jorn Veenendaal is doing a PhD in exhaust control at NWO Institute DIFFER

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Jorn Veenendaal

Capturing CO2 from the air using sunlight

How can you capture CO2 from the air with the help of sunlight and store it efficiently? DIFFER and Toyota are collaborating on a reactor that can do just that.

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Dutch satellite instrument SPEXone produces world map of particulate matter

In early 2024, NASA launched climate satellite PACE with on board the Dutch aerosol instrument SPEXone, co-developed by SRON.

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Dark matter experiment XENONnT measures solar neutrinos

XENONnT, a detector built to search for dark matter, has measured signals from solar neutrinos.

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E-value makes statistical testing more flexible and robust

The e-value not only makes experiments more flexible, and also allows the level of significance to be adjusted afterwards without compromising reliability.

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LOFAR discovers largest black hole jets ever seen

The LOFAR radio telescope has found the largest pair of eruptions ever observed shooting from a supermassive black hole.

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An illustration of the largest black hole jets ever observed. These eruptions, named Porphyrion after the mythological Greek giant, span roughly 23 million light years. They were observed using the LOFAR radio telescope.

Simple model captures complex plasma behaviour

ARCNL researchers in the Source Department discovered that a relatively simple, universal power law determines the complex behaviour of an expanding plasma of highly charged ions.

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