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Radioactivity Listen Meet Marie Curie on her way from a promising student, who was born and raised in difficult times, to one of the most renowned female natural scientists in the 20th century and esp
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Chemistry Listen Here, a fictive dispute between Democritus and Plato shall represent the counterpart images in the antiquities on the composition of matter. It is remarkable, that Democritus, whose i
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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
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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
https://www.science-story-telling.eu/en/stories/by-subject-area/physics
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
https://www.science-story-telling.eu/en/stories/by-nos-feature/influence
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/subjective
Subjective Listen Science has a subjective aspect to it. Science and scientific research are normally considered to be objective, yet, there are also subjective aspects: Scientists decide what they ta
https://www.science-story-telling.eu/en/stories/by-nos-feature/laws-and-theories
Laws and theories Listen While laws and theories in science are related, they are still distinct from each other. "One of the most resilient misconceptions about science is that laws are mature theori