Articles for biologists & chemists

Bring the magic of the Japanese Hanami festival into your home with the Magic Sakura - Magical Growing Cherry Tree! In Japan, the cherry blossom is...

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

If you're interested in what makes our universe tick, you can't get past the periodic table of elements. This list contains all the elements that h...

Everything used to be better - you only had to memorize four elements. Since ancient times, however, not only has the definition of these "smallest...

Dihydrogen monoxide is just like many other chemical substances - the dose makes the poison. However, it is not only the quantity that determines h...

At this point, we would like to dispel the widespread prejudice that geeks don't like plants. The problem that geeks have with plants is rather tha...

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...

If you talk to a hard rock fan at a party and casually ask what the AC/DC on his shirt means, the conversation will either come to an abrupt end or...

Let's talk about the elephant in the room: dihydrogen monoxide (DHMO). This chemical is a silent killer that kills countless people every year - an...

Plant 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...

The "Wheel of Life" on the T-shirt impressively captures the wonder of molecular biology. It is a graphic representation of the genetic code, the u...

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...

Every 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...

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...

Forget everything your chemistry teacher ever said to you. (Unless it was Walther White himself, you can really still learn something from him). Do...

Fortunately, freedom of religion prevails in our latitudes, so everyone can believe what they want. Some are not open to invisible, all-powerful fi...

Chemists 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...

What 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...

This is what you get when you cross a steam engine with a beetle: steampunk battle beetles. So you'd better watch out when assembling these insects...

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

No, this joke has nothing to do with gender, but rather something to do with chemistry. Science nerds will recognize this immediately. Of course, w...

Do you love scientific facts that sound clever but are actually completely underwhelming, and do you like cosmic exaggerations? With this shirt, yo...

It's the simple things that make you happy. Chemists, for example, the good old periodic table. You already know it by heart anyway, but it still l...

All things are poison and nothing without poison - only the dose makes a thing not poison. - ParacelsusThis saying by the wise Paracelsus became "T...

If evolution were capable of doing this, it would probably just sigh deeply when it came to the topic of "spicy food" and bang its head against the...

It's perfectly normal not to get along with everyone - sometimes it's just not meant to be. It's just stupid when there are other reasons that lead...

Even if this button doesn't contain any caffeine, the sight of it will hopefully give you extra energy. Or you can use it as a reminder that you wa...

You've spent years pulling all-nighters and memorizing formulas. You almost blew yourself up during days of experiments. Wore prints from the micro...

Without science, we would understand very little of what is going on around us and in our bodies. When you look at how the complex mechanisms keep ...

Once the gel from your Plantarium Super or Plantarium Garden Lab has been used up and your plants have either been repotted or eaten, you can start...

Whether in an IRC chat, a meeting with the boss or in bed: nerds speak [i]nerdish[/i]. Classic, unambiguous, straightforward.Here are a few example...

What is the difference between a witch and a scientist? She had to keep her results secret, he has to document them completely. For many people, ph...

For some reason, the vernacular has come to refer to everything and everyone as the "happiness hormone". Serotonin? Happiness hormone! Dopamine? Ha...

No matter how bad your mood is, a dose of radioactivity is sure to make you glow! This sticker can not only be used as a warning on the nuclear rea...

The Anatomy of the Heart T-shirt shows a stylized but anatomically correct heart. The most important parts of the heart are named in stylized lette...

Yes, we all know the old prejudice: nerds go to the basement to party and prefer to spend their birthday in front of the computer rather than with ...