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Discover Science across Europe

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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Dynamic Earth: Science Centre and Planetarium

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Dynamic Earth: Science Centre and Planetarium

Right in the heart of Scotland’s capital, Edinburgh, the Earth shakes on a regular basis. The volcano Arthur’s Seat may have been extinct for a long time, but at the nearby Dynamic Earth Science Centre and Planetarium, the ground still rumbles. The simulated earthquake is part of an immersive journey through the history of our […]

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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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Musée Curie

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Musée Curie

Curie is a name that is associated with scientific excellence and female emancipation like no other. Marie Curie is so far the only woman to have received two Nobel Prizes. No man has yet managed to be honoured with the most prestigious prize in two different natural sciences. She discovered the chemical elements radium and […]

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Geirangerfjord

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Geirangerfjord

It is not the seven dwarfs, but the equally fairytale-like seven sisters that can be found in Norway. These waterfalls plunge into the most famous of the many fjords in the west of the country: the Geirangerfjord. It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2005. The fjord extends over 15 kilometres, cuts 500 […]

Ein hoher Turm mit vielen Säulen und Bögen

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Leaning Tower of Pisa

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Leaning Tower of Pisa

58 metres high, weighing 14,453 tonnes and leaning at an angle of five and a half degrees – the Leaning Tower of Pisa is the symbol of the Italian city. The tower was originally intended as a bell tower for Pisa Cathedral and was supposed to be 100 metres high. However, due to the soft […]

Ein hoher Turm mit Windmesser: Mitten in München steht das Deutsche Museum.Credit: Unsplash/Wolfgang Tröscher

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Deutsches Museum

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Deutsches Museum

The Deutsches Museum is no less than one of the largest science and technology museums in the world: around 100,000 objects from various technical and scientific fields are exhibited on Munich’s Museum Island. Currently, 40 exhibitions show the range: from astronomy to marine research, from nanotechnology to mining and the in-house Zeiss planetarium. The highlights […]

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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.

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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.