TalTech
The number of Schools in TalTech
What is five?
This mineral can make things float easier if added to water
What is salt?
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?
This blood type is a universal donor
What is O negative?
The number of cities where TalTech has campuses
What is four?
First animal to ever be cloned
What is a sheep?
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 right now
What is 174?
Dry ice is the solid form of this compound
What is carbon dioxide?
Before explaining how species change, he considered becoming a country clergyman
Who is Charles Darwin?
A ridiculously large counting unit for things too small to count individually
What is a mole?
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?
Before discovering penicillin, this scientist spent four years working in a shipping office
Who is Alexander Fleming?
You keep asking your data different questions until it finally says something publishable
What is p-hacking?
Long-term exposure to this is in correlation with reduced risk of sudden cardiac death
Which is Finnish-style sauna?
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%?
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?