The seed bank, a hidden storage of genetic diversity
In 2012 a team of Russian scientists managed to germinate a 30.000 year old seed of an indigenous Siberian flower, called the Silene stenophylla. The seed blossomed into a plant, whose flowers produced fertile seeds.
Wandering around the bridges!
Can you always find a route through the bridges? This is the question to be answered.
Consult a mathematician before you visit Disneyland
You don’t want to wait in a theme park? We hired a mathematician to tell you the tips and tricks!
The quest for a better Internet
The internet is growing quickly. How can it remain as fast as it is now? We’ll find the answer in the supermarket!
Interviews and opinion articles
This category contains interviews and opinion articles that have been written by the Network Pages team or by collaborating authors.
Bitcoins and queues
Everybody is talking about Bitcoin. But how does it actually work?
Who sits where in the Senate?
In this article we discuss the following question: what is the optimal way to allocate the seats in the senate?
Can flipping the queue spare you time?
How would you react if we would tell you that serving the last customer in the queue in beneficial?
Zooming in a chemical reaction!
Chemical reactions evolve in the same way as water flows through a network of rivers. When describing a chemical reaction you can imagine that the concentrations of the reactants are flowing through the reaction network in the same way as water flows through the network of rivers.
The quantum Internet - A glimpse into the future
QuTech at the Delft University of Technology and TNO, in collaboration with the European Quantum Internet Alliance, are leading the efforts to establish a quantum Internet and aims at having a proof of concept version, between the cities of Amsterdam, Leiden, Delft and the Hague.