Science gadgets and science toys

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 ...

Summer means sun, beach, ice cream and balmy summer nights when the stars twinkle in the sky. With a bit of luck, we might even see a shooting star...

The best thing about the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), the benign deity of the Pastafarians, is the fact that – unlike some other deities – it do...

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...

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...

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....

In 1989, Phil Katz thought that you could really make money with compression. He was not entirely wrong, because the invention of the ZIP format ma...

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...

Many myths exist about how engineers manage to find solutions for problems that mere mortals could never hope to solve: pagan blood sacrifices, com...

Ah! This was the exclamation that slipped out of the scientist's mouth when he discovered this new element. In addition to its constantly changing ...

The protons are doing it right: They always stay positive. We should take them as role models :)

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In physics, you can find many renowned scientists and theorists that are good role models. But the smallest role models are often overlooked in the...

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...

All the non-geek heavy metal fans includes AC/DC within their beloved rock bands. We, of course, know where the name came from and what it all mean...

Every creature and every machine needs energy to run. As a nerd, that's too hazy a phrase, of course. People might think you're talking a...

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...

" Why can't we be together ?"... because "It is complex."Has this ever happen to you? You wanted to be together with someo...

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 ...

OK, you're allowed to admit it: Maths was your favourite subject at school and you just couldn't get enough of it, right? And even today, you can e...

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This button is all about the wonderful symbiosis between math and the animal kingdom: because as luck would have it, "the nth root of Q" sounds jus...

“You CAn’t USE a Pie chARt To DrAw A 3D RoOM” – said everyone who has not seen this t-shirt yet!Just one look at the Corner Pie Chart T-Shirt! shou...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

It's fascinating how a distant celestial body can influence us in our everyday lives. You've probably woken up in the morning completely exhausted ...

Since the first season of The Big Bang Theory aired on TV, we've been aware that the famous thought experiment by Erwin Schrödinger not only clarif...

According to several strategists from history, no plan will survive contact with the enemy. To a certain degree, this principle also applies to the...

When the borgs had known that it would have been so easy.

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...

Plant cultivation is a science in itself. No wonder it also has many fans among nerds. And especially when you spend a lot of time at home gaming, ...

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...