Fun and games - toys and kits for nerds

Over the course of millennia, mankind has managed to explore almost every square metre of the Earth's surface. As such, only the deep sea and space...

Insects are rarely mentioned as favourite animals, despite them having the highest biodiversity of all organism groups on Earth. And many of these ...

The Plantarium Garden Lab lets you grown seeds without the need for constant watering. Perfect if yours is the kind of home where plants usually ha...

Anyone who's even remotely interested in electronics and tinkering would probably take a bath in LEDs, batteries, transistors and other parts Scroo...

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While electronics certainly is a complex and fascinating field, many newcomers are put off by the sheer amount of complex information out there. Wh...

It has been known for a few hundred years that the earth is not the centre of the universe, but revolves around the sun. However, there still seem ...

It has been over 1000 years since the Vikings struck fear into the whole of Europe, yet even today we are still struck with awe. That is because ap...

With a Potato Clock, you won't need batteries or electricity from the power socket anymore –(at least not to know what time it is).Do you reme...

Pluto isn't just chronically lonely - far away from the sun, the Earth, and the other celestial bodies of our solar system - the poor orb has even ...

There's a war coming! A war for the human body! But instead of fighting off foreign threats such as bacteria and viruses, the organs are turning on...

Don't we all dream of constructing our own robot? Unfortunately, pretty much anything beyond a fighting machine designed for Robot Wars can be pret...

Star Wars, Star Trek, Star Gate - stars, space and its infinite vastness fascinate us nerds. Not only in sci-fi series, but also in reality. It's a...

Since its launch in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has captured numerous stunning images from faraway parts of space: striking comets, undiscover...

The cute robots from the varikabi line have proven that it’s possible to build fascinating robots without years of experience or complicated tools....

A tube made of copper and a small neodymium ball… is all you need to eliminate gravity and to make magneto-dynamics a meditative exercise, in a fas...

As we all know, Schrödinger's cat is both dead and alive at the same time, at least as long you don't look in the box ;). Our Schrödinger's Cat Plu...

We're living in a time where everybody can take photos with their phone! But people don't care about framing, focusing and lighting the p...

When you were a kid, did you used to love rolling marbles down a run and watching them roll down and around and around...? It was probably only mad...

Anyone who has ever been on the ISS or elsewhere in space knows that everything has to be secured in weightlessness. Objects are often attached to ...

There are many curious and often somewhat strange-looking creatures in the deep sea. One of the best known is the so-called blobfish, whose scienti...

This lamp brings together what belongs together: the iconic geometric lamp shape of the lava lamp, known to most kids from the 70s and 90s, and the...

Finishing a puzzle is a double-edged sword: on the one hand, you successfully put 300, 500 or even 1000 pieces together; on the other hand, you hav...

It sounds so romantic to sit under the stars at night and look for shooting stars. You could also search for the North Star and watch the Great Bea...

Many astronomers (not to be confused with astrologists!) started their stairway to the heavens at a planetarium, where they watched projections of ...

Patience is a virtue, they say. But they never tell you how to become patient and achieve a state of absolute relaxation. So it looks like we've go...

Finally there's a chance for pirates and Pastafaris to build their own shrine with the holy Flying Spaghetti Monster. In contrast to other non-prov...

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

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Dinosaurs are simply the best! No matter whether you ask children, teenagers or adults, most of us cannot deny a certain fascination with the ruler...

When the enthusiastic darts player Paul Alford came to Sweden and got to know the Swedish axe forging art at Gränsfors Bruk, he quickly realised th...

Aerial cableways have been used for hundreds of years to transport people or goods over rough terrain. It doesn't matter whether it's mountain vall...

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...

Become the director of your very own Jurassic Park! Since real dinosaurs are extinct and their bones are both extremely rare and illegal to own in ...

The Zometool construction system is used for the recreation and visualisation of structures from chemistry, biology and physics. It is suitable for...

Experts are still debating whether the fearsome T-Rex was an active predator or rather a scavenger. We know better. Of course, it simply ate everyt...