Gifts for School Graduation

Without a measuring cup, we'd be lost in the kitchen – a regular cup just won't cut it for precise measurements! While cooking is certainly possibl...

Cold hands are simply annoying. Apart from the fact that they feel uncomfortable, they can prevent you from using your smartphone properly. And we ...

Are you looking for a worthy timepiece for your wrist, but find analog watches totally boring and the slightly more modern digital version has long...

Sure, it's easier to work with natural numbers in everyday life. But the really cool numbers, which have made math history and led to all kinds of ...

When the dirty dishes in your kitchen start to pile up so high that you start to expect to see the fiery eye of Sauron enthroned on them, it's actu...

Let someone say again that we humans are always interested in our own safety: Our investigative research has revealed that almost all people surrou...

While nerds and geeks have already conquered large parts of everyday life and can show off their preferences with cool shirts and iconic mugs, the ...

At a time when everyone can take photos with their phone, but nobody knows how it actually works, we're going back to the good old SLR camera. So t...

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...

A simple potted plant enhances your living room, office or almost any other room enormously without having to spend a lot of money or effort. A lit...

There are different ways to learn your chemistry lessons.One of them would be with jokes:When helium comes into a bar, the bartender says: 'Sorry, ...

Mary Anning dug up fossils while the world still believed women didn't belong in science. Marie Curie won two Nobel Prizes. Grace Hopper invented t...

Ever since school lessons at the latest, it should be clear to everyone that nothing works without chemistry. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the s...

Pluto is not only chronically lonely, so far away from the SunEarth and all the others, the poor celestial body has also been cast out of the plane...

This lamp brings together what belongs together: the shape of the lava lamp, which children of the 70s and 90s may remember as an object of desire,...

As we all know, the average nerd prefers his coffee black. No milk, no sugar, no frills. But every now and then a latte macchiato, a crema or anoth...

A hollow copper cylinder and a small neodymium sphere - that's all you need to play a fascinating trick on gravity and turn magnetodynamics into a ...

If you ask a physicist what the most important of all sciences is, he will undoubtedly answer "physics". If you take a closer look at the sub-areas...

Whether at school, in customer service or in technology - some interactions with the average idiot almost drive you crazy. No matter how hard you t...

Was math your absolute favorite subject at school and you just couldn't get enough of it? If you could still solve math problems 'around the clock'...

Sometimes you just need a few moments to collect your thoughts. As people (fortunately) can't look into other people's heads, you have to somehow m...

Mendeleev organized the periodic table – but no one told him that the elements would eventually break free. In Elemonsters Explore, the thrilling r...

Sometimes you just need a little longer to sort out your thoughts. Just point to the button and finish thinking. That way everyone knows and you ha...

A progress bar for thought processes would be really useful. It would let everyone involved know when it's okay to get another cup of coffee and wh...

There is power in calm. But sometimes the calm lies in things that are rather restless in themselves: the swinging of a pendulum, the roaring of th...

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...

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...

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...

You've probably seen it somewhere before - in movies, TV series or with the cool boss in the office: this rhythmically swinging ball game that has ...

Every bookshelf could do with some tidying up, whether it's filled with DVDs, computer games or books that are constantly tipping over. And who bet...

The universe. Infinite expanses. These are the adventures of the spaceship... Wait a minute, this is not science fiction, but hard-hitting reality....

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

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

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

In chemistry, the mole is the unit par excellence when it comes to making gigantic quantities of particles manageable. 6.022 × 10²³ particles - Avo...

Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, can certainly be viewed critically, but every now and then you discover a few sparks of truth in his ...