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The number of Schools in TalTech
What is five? (Information Technologies, Engineering, Science, Business and Governance, Maritime Academy)
This mineral can make things float easier if added to water
What is salt?
While famously called the "powerhouse of the cell" for producing ATP, this organelle is unique because it contains its own distinct, circular type of this genetic material, inherited entirely from your mother
What is mitochondria?
Before changing our understanding of space and time, this physicist assessed other people’s inventions at a Swiss patent office
Who is Albert Einstein?
Earth is clingy and won’t let you leave
What is gravity?
The number of cities where TalTech has campuses
What is four? (Tallinn, Tartu, Kuressaare, Kohtla-Järve)
First animal to ever be cloned
What is a sheep?
This optical phenomenon occurs when light bends as it passes from one medium to another, like air into water
What is refraction?
Before becoming the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, she worked as a governess, helping finance her sister’s education
Who is Marie Curie?
A protein gets too hot and loses its entire personality
What is protein denaturation?
This many active PhD students are immatriculated in TalTech School of Science as of 17.09.2026
What is 171?
Dry ice is the solid form of this compound
What is carbon dioxide?
This blood type is an universal donor
What is O negative?
Before explaining how species change, he considered becoming a country clergyman
Who is Charles Darwin?
You keep asking your data different questions until it finally says something publishable
What is p-hacking?
The field of science where TalTech’s current rector Tiit Land has a PhD degree in
What is biochemistry?
The only planet in our solar system to rotate clockwise on its axis
What is Venus?
Frequent sessions of sweating in this heated, wood-lined room is in correlation with reduced risk of sudden cardiac death
What is Finnish-style sauna?
Before discovering penicillin, this scientist spent four years working in a shipping office
Who is Alexander Fleming?
A ridiculously large counting unit for things too small to count individually
What is a mole?
This many School of Science PhD coffee mornings have taken place since September 2025
What is 15?
This percentage of the Earth’s wildlife is found in the ocean
What is 94%?
This is the only letter that does not appear in the name of any chemical element
What is J?
Before discovering electromagnetic induction, he apprenticed as a bookbinder
Who is Michael Faraday?
A population changes over generations because some individuals are better at producing offspring
What is natural selection?