Science gadgets and science toys

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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...

The average nerd prefers his coffee black. No milk, no sugar, no frills. But from time to time, a latte macchiato, crema or some other fancy form o...

Well, good old normal distribution... What could be more beautiful than the balanced rise and fall of the Gaussian bell curve? Even those who don&#...

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...

The famous experiment by physicist Erwin Schrödinger (which was, we hope, meant to be an imagined experiment only!) describes the mad side of quant...

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...

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...

This rather chilling choice of words from the Borg right before assimilation shows the benefits of a hive mind and thus the shared knowledge of sev...

Sheldon: "The best number is 73. Why? 73 is the 21st prime number. Its mirror, 37, is the 12th and its mirror, 21, is the product of multiplyi...

Physicists do indeed make great parents! Having an answer as to why the sky is blue, or why flies in a moving car don't hit the back window ar...

For a long time, researchers believed that the dinosaurs died out as a result of a meteorite impact on Earth. We now know this may not be the case....

Helping others solving their problems with maths - no problem! Just give them your number. ;)This shirt is available in German, only. :(

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...

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...

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...

The moon has fascinated people since time immemorial and for good reason. After all, it influences the tides of the oceans and even our bodies. In ...

There are a few things you can't predict: Who dies next on Game of Thrones, the Spanish Inquisition or the element of surprise Ah! This little elem...

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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...

Sadly, our everyday lives have a lot of potential for negative thoughts. But it’s important we don’t let negative experiences impact our day – if w...

Back in the old days, pluto was still a planet. Remember? What great times they were! But a few years ago, Pluto lost his status as a "real&qu...

If school has taught us one thing, it's that nothing would work without chemistry. Ever since shedding the stigma of alchemy in the 17th and 18th c...

We'd like to fight the common prejudice that geeks don't like plants. The problem that geeks have with plants is that they need constant care, whic...

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The Physical Society needs your help! You may know of Schrodinger's famous thought experiment: Basically, it's the theory that in quantum physics, ...

Do you see real beauty where others just see numbers? Are perfect formulas and graphs your type of art? No matter where and when, do you think that...

The kitchen can be a dangerous place - you handle acid, sharp blades and high heat and trigger chemical reactions. There should be a lot more warni...

Many theories seem flawless on paper. Only when they have to be applied in the real world do unforeseen problems or surprising realisations arise. ...

Everything used to be better back in the day – all you had to do was remember four elements! Since antiquity, however, not only has the definition ...

As nerds, we are definitely anything but average. We love topics and things that the average person might not particularly be interested in, we alm...

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...

If you delve deeper into the works of the infamous psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, you'll start to descend into slightly smutty realms. Suddenly, ciga...

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