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Democritus and the atoms Listen Plato was walking home, it was a hot afternoon, and he just wanted to get back into the cool space of his house. He was in a rush, despite the temperature, not only bec
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by topic by NOS-feature by subject area Stories Listen The narrative approach is the keystone of the STM project. In this section, you will find some narrative approaches to stories that describe hist
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Biology Listen The dutch physician Christiaan Eijkman is trying to cure people from a strange illness. Beri-Beri was known in the dutch colonies for a long time, but researchers were unable to identif
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Stories by NOS-feature Listen The stories can be accessed by Nature of Science features: In some instances, several stories go under the same feature, in others, there is just one story (at the moment
https://www.science-story-telling.eu/en/stories/by-subject-area/physics/joule-and-energy/the-hard-work-of-experimenting-james-prescott-joule-william-thomson-and-the-mechanical-equivalent-of-heat
The hard work of experimenting Listen Manchester, in the early 1840s. Manchester was a busy industrial town in these days, actually, it could be named as the industrial cen-ter of England, and in thos
https://www.science-story-telling.eu/en/stories/by-subject-area/biology/lind-and-scurvy
Lind and scurvy Listen It was a cloudy morning, May 20, 1747 year. Liner HMS "Salisbury" under full sail riped waters of the Gulf of Biscay. Captain George Edgcumbe stood on the bridge and smiled at t
https://www.science-story-telling.eu/en/stories/by-nos-feature/creative
Creative Listen Creativeness in sciences is evident for those who practice science, however, for those who do not, science appears to be either unflexible and acting according to some rules that can n
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Physics Listen Can something like a NOTHING really BE in existence? This story tells you about the german mayor von Guericke and his losing game to prove the existence of the vacuum. Guericke and vacu
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Influence Listen Science is influenced by historical, cultural, and social factors. What scientists consider to be relevant, what they consider to be an appropriate methodology and how they define wha
https://www.science-story-telling.eu/en/stories/by-nos-feature/technology
Technology Listen While science and technology influence each other, they are not the same. "Many confuse the terms science and technology, often considering them synonyms. Roughly speaking there are