Science in Sweden

Could this controversial parietal bone be the remains of the famed French philosopher?

The signatures of esteemed colleagues of the physicists who stopped by to attend lectures.

An impressive collection of massive radio satellites.

A collection of trees from various corners of the world call Stockholm University home.

Sweden's southernmost point is located in this charming fishing village.

A living descendant of the famous tree that helped Isaac Newton develop the theory of gravity.

The standard measure of Lagom, a measure of what is enough.

The center of Stockholm can be found along this quiet street.

This tree was once used to calculate the decrease of the Baltic Sea.

One of the world's oldest continuously operating meteorological stations sits on a hill in Stockholm.

The wilderness of northern Sweden is full of shelters to protect people from sounding rockets returning from space.

The first thermometer made with the almost-universal temperature scale is backwards.

When this 18th-century observatory's meridian was moved, it set Sweden's time back by 0.04 seconds.

A plaque marks the house in Stockholm where the French philosopher René Descartes lived up until his death.

This statue and park honor the Swedish chemist Jacob Berzelius, one of the founders of modern chemistry.

Hidden in plain sight, Sweden's official ordnance datum is now abandoned.