Gifts for scientists and doctoral students

No matter how much you want them, some things are just not meant to be: fire and water, good and evil, or roots and negative numbers. There is no r...

As normal people, we will probably never get to see our earth or its smaller companion, the moon, in all their glory, except in photos or videos. B...

Be it from George Orwell's novel 1984, Soviet propaganda or the Radiohead song, most people are acquainted with the (false) equation 2+2=5. Apart f...

Star Trek was –(and still is) –ahead of its time. Spock and co. in The Original Series were the first to give us touchscreens, flip-phone communica...

Contrary to our stereotype, we nerds don't just gamble 24/7 (even if we would like to!)… although it is true we can get absolutely absorbed in our ...

Mosquitoes are quite annoying creatures: they buzz around our heads when we are trying to sleep, suck our blood and leave us covered with itchy bit...

No matter how much you want them, some things are just not meant to be: fire and water, good and evil, or roots and negative numbers. There is no r...

Even nerds like us make mistakes when setting up our differential equations and drawing blueprints for spaceships that will finally take us into th...

Every mission, whether in space or on Earth, must be well prepared. Don’t forget vital items such as your drinking bottle!When you have finally dec...

To answer the question about life, the universe and everything else, you don't need a huge computer or millions of years of time. Chemistry can pro...

Water. Without this invigorating liquid, we'd be in trouble. To be more precise, we wouldn't be at all, since we require water to exist. The same g...

Most people probably don't associate hot water, shampoo and invigorating warmth with the term "mathematics" and formulas, graphs, variables and the...

Even the youngest among the Pastafarians knows that Charles Darwin fell victim to a divine hoax when he found so-called proof of evolution. As the ...

You may have seen our Plantarium Garden Lab? Well, if you're looking for a new challenge, then how about these sets? They include different plants,...

Without what could you never leave Earth?If we put the question like that, we’d probably get a lot of different answers ranging from pragmatic (“a ...

If everything had gone according to plan in Jurassic Park, the dinosaurs in the park would not have been able to reproduce at all. If the scientist...

Stars and other celestial bodies have fascinated us humans for as long as we have existed. In the beginning, we could only observe them from a dist...

Welcome to the Isla Nublar!As a visitor to Jurassic World, you shouldn’t miss any of the impressive attractions here in the park, especially not th...

Wow, you're an even better dinosaur trainer than Owen Grady! Even he wouldn't dare come so close to the fearsome teeth of a raptor. Although Blue i...