Science gadgets and science toys

What if you could end every evening with a view into space - without leaving the house? The astronaut laser star projector makes just that possible...

Do you know this too? As soon as you get into the kitchen to cook, dozens of chemical questions start running through your head. What is the atomic...

It sounds so romantic to sit under the stars at night and look for shooting stars. You could look for the North Star and watch the Great Bear, Cass...

How many clawed fingers did a T-Rex have? What is remarkable about the brain size of a Stegosaurus? How many letters does the dinosaur with the lon...

Every living being and every machine needs energy to run. As a nerd, such a term is of course too vague, and someone might confuse it with somethin...

In keeping with the natural science to which it is dedicated, the Science Cup: Chemistry makes a brilliant entrance with the equation of the oxyhyd...

Life finds a way...... to get revenge on the bad guys. Computer genius Dennis Nedry almost managed to smuggle 15 embryos out of Jurassic Park and s...

Forget everything your chemistry teacher ever said to you. (Unless it was Walther White himself, you can really still learn something from him). Do...

Fortunately, freedom of religion prevails in our latitudes, so everyone can believe what they want. Some are not open to invisible, all-powerful fi...

In 2006, Pluto was downgraded from a "real" planet to a dwarf planet. Downgraded, in fact. The only one of the four criteria for a planet that it d...

Not every number can be perfect.

Chemists are often regarded as... special. But they have a solution for everything! For example, if they run out of things to talk about at a party...

Ever since The Big Bang Theory, we know that Erwin Schrödinger's thought experiment is not only an excellent way to illustrate the superposition pr...

Every true dinosaur fan has certainly dreamed more than once of experiencing the prehistoric giants alive. Unfortunately, time travel is still not ...

What it says on the tin. The perfect cup for anyone who is addicted to caffeine. Whether it's coffee, tea, cola or cocoa - these liquid fuels can b...

Every child knows that cats have nine lives. But where does life actually begin and where does it end? And what do you do if you lock your cat in a...

As a nerd, you often have a hard time: you know so much better than other people, you know your specialty perfectly... And then some noob comes alo...

This is what you get when you cross a steam engine with a beetle: steampunk battle beetles. So you'd better watch out when assembling these insects...

Osmosis is the diffusion through a semi-permeable membrane... If this sentence, which many people should know from biology lessons, makes your eyes...

If you believe sayings like"There's nothing to swear by an engineer" or"Trust me - I'm an engineer", then engineers are true jacks-of-all-trades wh...

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It's debatable whether Christmas trees are really sustainable these days. So why not go for a dinosaur? Big, green, suitable for fairy lights... Ok...

Gandalf said it to Balrog in 'Lord of the Rings I' and the Black Knight to King Arthur in 'The Knights of the Coconut'...... "You shall not pass" h...

No, this joke has nothing to do with gender, but rather something to do with chemistry. Science nerds will recognize this immediately. Of course, w...

It's actually no wonder that the T-Rex in the 1993 movie "Jurassic Park" is in a bad mood - after all, he's been offline for quite a while. At some...

As the saying goes, the dumbest farmers have the fattest potatoes. Does this saying also apply outside of agriculture? What about phi breeding, for...

Imagine: Christmas, candlelight, the smell of cookies - and a T-Rex desperately trying to put the star on the top of the tree. Impossible with his ...

The experiment, which became known colloquially as "Schrödinger's cat", was originally intended to illustrate a problem in quantum mechanics. What ...

Oh, what would we do without the number pi? Calculating circles, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and, last but not least, excuses to bake pies...

Some mathematicians are said to have gone mad when they read this statement ;)

Admittedly, math has such a bad reputation with most people that even indoor halma and synchronized crochet seem more popular. As someone who feels...

Many of us have heard at school - or even later in life - about the potential we would have if only we made more of an effort. It should actually b...

Footballers have the hold up, hippies have the hacky sack and us nerds... we have Feel Flux! This anti-stress and skill game uses the laws of physi...

Do you love scientific facts that sound clever but are actually completely underwhelming, and do you like cosmic exaggerations? With this shirt, yo...

First of all, what is MaKey MaKey and what can it do?MaKey MaKey (Make + Key), a Kickstarter project, is a kit that contains all the necessary comp...

It's the simple things that make you happy. Chemists, for example, the good old periodic table. You already know it by heart anyway, but it still l...