Science

Discover stories of science, technology, engineering and mathematics

Blogs

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Meet Heisenberg: a quantum mechanics pioneer and an icon of 20th-century science history

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How Swede Beda Hallberg battled a pandemic with small paper flowers

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Mathematician, engineer and inventor Joseph Maximilian Petzval is best known for his contribution to modern photography.

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Pythagoras was philosopher + mathematician - do you know the story of the man behind the theory?

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Eduards Kraucs's photography documents the construction of the Ķegums Hydropower Plant

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Explore the history of Nokia from Finland and Ericsson from Sweden, two Nordic telecommunications companies

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The famous scientist is remembered for her discoveries and pioneering research on radioactivity.

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An inspirational and influential woman in science

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How the human race has viewed space through the ages

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Sigmund Freud is easily the most influential psychiatrist of all time.

Galleries

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Discover gamechangers in the history of medicine, a tribute to healthcare workers keeping us safe and healthy every day.

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Highlighting a selection of endangered and threatened plants and animals from across the world.

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The telephone has become an essential tool of communication.Explore the development of telephones through time.

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For centuries, people have harnessed nature and science to generate energy and electricity for industrial power.

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Conquer the space with this astral selection of Europeana Fashion items perfect to reach to the stars!

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The magic lantern was the most popular, creative and versatile instrument for visual communication before cinema.

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In Europe and the Middle East the dragon was a legendary creature of evil. But are the dragons of myth based on reality?

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This gallery shows calendars and others ways to show days and date and tell the time.

From balloon to blimp: staying afloat

Selection of images of airships, balloons, zeppelins and blimps. Join us on a journey through the clouds in some of the most imaginative floating vessels in history.

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This gallery presents some of impressive machinery used at or behind the Austro-Hungarian front in World War I.

Learning scenarios about STEAM

English, STEAM - Lower secondary, Primary school

Art, English, Language - Primary school

English, History, STEAM - Lower secondary

Art, English, History, STEAM - Upper secondary

English, STEAM - Secondary school

English, Italian, STEAM - Lower secondary

English, STEAM - Upper secondary, Vocational educational training

History of sciences through three portraits

History, STEAM - Upper secondary

English, History, STEAM - Primary, Lower Secondary

Art, English, STEAM - Lower secondary, Upper secondary

STEAM - Pre-primary school, Primary school

Robotic arms: the future of industrial automation

STEAM - Upper secondary, VET

3D printing-modern available technology of the future

English, STEAM - VET

STEAM - Upper secondary, VET

Symmetries in Floral Ornaments of Art Nouveau

Learning Scenario (Art, English, STEAM - Lower secondary)

STEAM - Lower secondary, Upper secondary

STEAM - Lower secondary, Upper secondary

The Revival of Patterns and Symmetrical Designs

Art, English, STEAM - Primary School

Tangram: an Ancient Educational Material

Art, English, History, STEAM - Primary school

Art, English, History, STEAM - Lower secondary

Using arts to reconstruct a volcanic eruption

Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Steam - Primary school

The wind is all around us: let’s make electricity

English, History, STEAM - Upper secondary

STEAM - Lower and Upper Secondary

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Videos about STEAM

The Engine that Ignited a Revolution

This video shows the revolutionary Newcomen steam engine, and how this invention determined modern technology.

How does steam move this massive locomotive?

Know about how in the second half of the 18th-century engineers improved Newcomen’s design and developed high-pressure steam engines