Winter is coming to an end; the last nights of below zero temperatures are here. In the morning, one still spots the occasional icicle on a gutter or car bumper. When you look at these icicles carefully, you may ...

When two microscopic systems are entangled, their properties are linked to each other irrespective of the physical distance between the two. Manipulating this uniquely quantum phenomenon is what allows for quantum ...

Is the inside of a plant cell more like a liquid or a solid? While this may sound like an odd question, research carried out at the University of Amsterdam demonstrates it can be either, depending on how much light ...

Arghavan Safavi-Naini recently received a Quantum Delta NL grant for her project 'Trapped ions make excellent quantum bits'. The project was one of sixteen granted projects within the National Growth Fund programme ...

Many surfaces get slippery when wet. Some surfaces have the opposite behaviour: they get less slippery. UvA researchers have now shed light on why this is the case. Hydrogen bonds between the surface and the water ...

Modern atomic quantum clocks are the most precise and accurate scientific instruments ever created. Currently, these so-called optical atomic clocks are mostly found in physics laboratories, often filling an entire ...

Sometimes old equipment which is no longer used can get a new life and be useful elsewhere. Such was the case for a sputtering machine, bought long ago by IoP-physicist Jeroen Goedkoop and used for research by his ...

Research led by the University of Amsterdam has demonstrated that elusive radiation coming from black holes can be studied by mimicking it in the lab.

Given a 3D piece of origami, can you flatten it without damaging it? Just by looking at the design, the answer is hard to predict, because each and every fold in the design has to be compatible with flattening. This ...

During the recent meeting of the Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics of the Netherlands' Physical Society (NNV AMO), former UvA-IoP master student Thies Plaßmann was awarded the annual NNV AMO master ...