Gifts for scientists and doctoral students
An octopus whose eight (lat.: octo) arms consist of pi is of course nothing other than an octopi. This chemical is a silent killer that kills countless people every year - an...
View full detailsSomeone has to say it so clearly :)
You call it "baking", we call it "experiment on the behavior of various chemicals under constant heating". And of course we don't need "flour", "sa...
View full detailsIf you make an effort and run really [i]fast[/i], this green T-shirt could appear blue. And by fast, we mean really fast ;)We have the Doppler effe...
View full detailsThe Society for Physics needs your help! You are certainly familiar with Schrödinger's famous thought experiment: essentially, it is about extendin...
View full detailsImagine: Christmas, candlelight, the smell of cookies - and a T-Rex desperately trying to put the star on the top of the tree. Impossible with his ...
View full detailsNo, this joke has nothing to do with gender, but rather something to do with chemistry. Science nerds will recognize this immediately. Of course, w...
View full detailsPirates and pastafarians finally have the opportunity to set up a shrine to the sacred Flying Spaghetti Monster. Unlike other deities that cannot b...
View full detailsJigsaw puzzles are a double-edged sword: if you manage to put the 300, 500 or even over 1000 pieces together correctly, you can be happy to have do...
View full detailsWhat do you mean there was no milk when our galaxy was formed? Where else would the Milky Way come from? Or does the milk flow through the Milky Wa...
View full detailsChemists are often regarded as... special. But they have a solution for everything! For example, if they run out of things to talk about at a party...
View full detailsThere 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...
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You've spent years pulling all-nighters and memorizing formulas. You almost blew yourself up during days of experiments. Wore prints from the micro...
View full detailsDo 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...
View full detailsPlant breeding 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, wat...
View full detailsIn keeping with the natural science to which it is dedicated, the Science Cup: Chemistry makes a brilliant entrance with the equation of the oxyhyd...
View full detailsYou know Sudoku: numbers 1 to 9, each row, each column, each box exactly once. Sounds manageable, right? The Sudoku Cube sees it differently and li...
View full detailsIt has been known for a few hundred years that the earth is not the center of the universe, but revolves around the sun. However, there still seem ...
View full detailsHow many clawed fingers did a T-Rex have? What is remarkable about the brain size of a Stegosaurus? How many letters does the dinosaur with the lon...
View full detailsIt's actually no wonder that the T-Rex in the 1993 movie "Jurassic Park" is in a bad mood - after all, he's been offline for quite a while. At some...
View full detailsFortunately, freedom of religion prevails in our latitudes, so everyone can believe what they want. Some are not open to invisible, all-powerful fi...
View full detailsYou'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 ...
View full detailsEvery living being and every machine needs energy to run. As a nerd, such a term is of course too vague, and someone might confuse it with somethin...
View full detailsDo you remember 2020? Corona was a pretty blatant pandemic! But do you know who was even worse? The plague! 6 years, almost every city in Europe an...
View full detailsGandalf said it to Balrog in 'Lord of the Rings I' and the Black Knight to King Arthur in 'The Knights of the Coconut'...... "You shall not pass" h...
View full detailsIf 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...
View full detailsWhat it says on the tin. The perfect cup for anyone who is addicted to caffeine. Whether it's coffee, tea, cola or cocoa - these liquid fuels can b...
View full detailsForget everything your chemistry teacher ever said to you. (Unless it was Walther White himself, you can really still learn something from him). Do...
View full detailsIt sounds so romantic to sit under the stars at night and look for shooting stars. You could look for the North Star and watch the Great Bear, Cass...
View full detailsLife finds a way...... to get revenge on the bad guys. Computer genius Dennis Nedry almost managed to smuggle 15 embryos out of Jurassic Park and s...
View full detailsIn 2006, Pluto was downgraded from a "real" planet to a dwarf planet. Downgraded, in fact. The only one of the four criteria for a planet that it d...
View full detailsOsmosis is the diffusion through a semi-permeable membrane... If this sentence, which many people should know from biology lessons, makes your eyes...
View full detailsEver since The Big Bang Theory, we know that Erwin Schrödinger's thought experiment is not only an excellent way to illustrate the superposition pr...
View full detailsYou're sitting on the train, your coffee spills and someone mutters: "Everything happens for a reason." - Of course it does! Gravity, inertia, cons...
View full detailsThe perfect gifts for the lab and for home
Where's the best place to start when you're looking for a gift for a scientist? Science T-shirts would be a great idea. These shirts aren't just nerdy, they also look great, and you only get them if you have a degree or a deep love for one or more scientific disciplines yourself. Even as a physicist you can be fascinated by medicine and therefore be delighted with medical gadgets as a gift. After all, you can never have enough nerdy T-shirts. Something else you can never have enough of, and which therefore makes a great gift, is mugs and cups, ideally with scientific designs you can really show off with in the lab or the office. And for anyone who prefers to look up at the sky, Astro-Tim has gadgets all about stars and planets.
Presents for newly minted PhDs
Writing a doctoral thesis is a pretty exhausting and lengthy affair. Many years of research, experiments and typing, just to finally hold that longed-for doctorate. Once you've made it, you really have earned a little something. A few funny science gadgets, for example. But don't worry, we also have gifts in stock for those who are still working on their PhD. For them, practical and funny office gadgets are a great choice, so typing up the thesis is a bit more fun. And we're not talking about any old office supplies, far from it. With us you'll only find wonderfully nerdy and geeky office helpers that will make every scientist's heart beat faster.
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If you're looking for a specific occasion, here's the right selection: Birthday gifts for scientists, Christmas gifts for scientists.