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The Science Guide

With the Science Guide, our students take you on a scientific journey across Europe. They tell research stories from different European countries and offer you a new, scientific perspective on the continent's travel destinations. Currently, most of the reports and articles are available only in German, but English and French versions of the website are in the making.

The articles on the website are mainly written by students of journalism and science journalism at TU Dortmund University.

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Ein Mann im wei´ßen Kittel sitzt an einem Tisch. Darauf liegt ein großer Knochen. Am Tisch stehen vier weitere Menschen.

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Natural history with a twist: Research to touch and watch

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Natural history with a twist: Research to touch and watch

At the Naturalis museum in Leiden you can watch scientists at work, even as they dissect animals for the public eye.

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Mathematical Physics Salon

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Mathematical Physics Salon

A gilded compass with spiral engravings from the 16th century or a gilded planetary clock, consisting of two floors, which traces the course of seven planets and is crowned with a silver celestial globe that is so elaborately decorated that every detail carries another detail in itself. There are also glass chandeliers hanging from the […]

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Caves in the Slovak Karst

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Caves in the Slovak Karst

More than 1100 caves and abysses can be found in the Slovak Karst and Aggtelek National Parks on the border between Hungary and Slovakia. Almost nowhere else in the world are there so many underground structures. Many of them are so-called karst caves with metre-high stalagmites and stalactites made of limestone. Stalagmites grow upwards from […]

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Museum of the History of Science and Technology in Islam

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Museum of the History of Science and Technology in Islam

‘On the construction of the two vases on the shoulders of the elephant, the hanging cymbal and the preparation of the water clock’. With this chapter, the scholar Al-Jazari ends his instructions for building an elephant water clock. The hands of the clock are driven by a buoy that sinks in water. Al-Jazari probably came […]

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Giant waves of Nazaré

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Giant waves of Nazaré

The Portuguese town of Nazaré is particularly well known to surfers: about 120 km north of Lisbon, huge waves of two dozen metres or more can occur there. Only the best big wave surfers in the world take on this force. The reason for this natural spectacle is the Nazaré Canyon north of Nazaré on […]

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Offshore wind farms off Esbjerg

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Offshore wind farms off Esbjerg

The Horns Rev 1 to 3 offshore wind farms off the coast of Esbjerg constitute the largest wind farm in Northern Europe. Horns Rev 1 was the first offshore wind farm to be built in the North Sea. The wind farm is named after the sandbank, Horns Rev, on which the wind turbines were erected. […]

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Ein riesieger Staudamm von oben. Foto: Sjoerd Bracke & Cuno de Bruin.

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Delta Works

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Delta Works

Although the Delta Works in the Netherlands are impressive, they are nevertheless literally an attraction of the ‘reserved’ kind. After all, the Delta Works form the world’s largest storm surge protection system. It was built by the Dutch government in response to a devastating flood disaster in 1953, in which almost 1,900 people and over […]

Es spritzt und brodelt beim Vulkanausbruch. Credits: Gro Pedersen

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Volcanoes: Mars on your doorstep

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Volcanoes: Mars on your doorstep

Iceland is an excellent place to study the formation of a planet. A researcher takes us to the latest hot spot.

Im Vordergrund ein Mikrofon, im Hintergrund ein abstraktes Kunstwerk

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Science Talk on Bosnia and Herzegovina: Shadows of the past, chances for the future?

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Science Talk on Bosnia and Herzegovina: Shadows of the past, chances for the future?

What's the state of science in Bosnia and Herzegovina? What's unique? What are the biggest challenges? Science journalist Jasmin Alibegović gives his view.

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Institut Pasteur

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Institut Pasteur

Behind the walls of the elegant building in Paris, major scientific breakthroughs have been made time and again for 150 years.