Birthday Gifts for Scientists

If dihydrogen monoxide (DHMO) is leaking around you, you need to act fast! After all, this nasty chemical is extremely dangerous and sends countles...

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...

Are you tired of wrapping your cool, geeky gifts, which you have chosen with love and care (ideally in our store, of course) ;) in irrelevant or ev...

As a nerd store, we don't normally offer religious devotional items. Normally. Because we make an exception for the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the n...

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 ...

As exciting and fascinating as the world of electronics is, it can also seem intimidating and unmanageable for beginners. What tools do you need? D...

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

As nerds, we love clever puns that are not immediately understandable to outsiders. We are particularly fond of the number pi, which seems to lurk ...

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 ...

The Plantarium Garden Lab lets seeds sprout without you having to water them regularly. Ideal if normal houseplants don't have a long life in your ...

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...

Another piece from our own geek jewelry collection: the DNA molecule earrings. Jay! :)What could be more personal than giving a little piece of DNA...

The best thing about the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), the noodly deity of the Pastafarians, is that, unlike some other deities, it does not impo...

Ever since Heinz Rühmann's comments on alcoholic fermentation in Die Feuerzangenbowle, we have known that chemistry and tipsy fun go hand in hand. ...

Since its launch in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has repeatedly managed to bring impressive images from distant parts of space to our little bl...

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...

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...

We proudly present: our Geek Gems. At last, fashion-conscious geeks no longer have to make their jewelry (only) from discarded electronic parts. Or...

Circuit boards, capacitors, batteries, LEDs and the like - anyone who lives for electronics with heart and soul could bathe in these things. Unfort...

We all know the old adage: cooking is art, baking is science. After all, messed-up dishes can usually be salvaged somehow, whereas one milligram to...

We all dream of building our own robot. Unfortunately, it soon turns out that anything beyond a robot fighting machine for Robot Wars is a bit more...

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...

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 ...

There is a war going on in the human body! But instead of fighting together against external attackers such as bacteria or viruses, the organs are ...

It has been over 1000 years since the Vikings terrified the whole of Europe, and they continue to fascinate people to this day. Apart from their ma...

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...

Dinosaur skulls are quite impressive - the only problem is that they are quite rare, quite expensive and private ownership is quite illegal. So wha...

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...

Did you also enjoy playing with marble runs as a child, which probably consisted of colorful wooden pieces and, despite their simplicity, managed t...

Pirates and pastafarians finally have the opportunity to set up a shrine to the sacred Flying Spaghetti Monster. Unlike other deities that cannot b...

Jigsaw 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...

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...

How 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...

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...