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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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The Vjosa – the last wild river in Central Europe

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The Vjosa – the last wild river in Central Europe

The untamed Vjosa rushes through the landscape, meandering as it pleases, changing its course here and there. It overcomes gorges, flows down hills as waterfalls, washes around rocks that stand in its way. It spreads out as a torrent in the valley or ripples through white pebbles. In the process, sediment is transported, causing sand […]

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Royal Greenwich Observatory

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Royal Greenwich Observatory

Changing from west to east in just one step. This is only possible in a few places in the world. One of the most beautiful and significant is the historic Royal Observatory at Greenwich in London. The equator is the axis that divides the Earth into north and south. The equator lies on the middle […]

Ein Arbeiter auf gelbem Kran werkelt an einem riesigen roten Tunnelgebilde herum

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Large Hadron Collider at CERN

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Large Hadron Collider at CERN

The world’s largest particle physics research centre, CERN, is located near Geneva, partly in France and partly in Switzerland. The name is an acronym for ‘Conseil européen pour la recherche nucléaire’, the European Council for Nuclear Research, which was commissioned to found the organisation. The European Organisation for Nuclear Research operates, among other things, the […]

Futuristische, quadratische Häuserfronten

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University of Luxembourg

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University of Luxembourg

This university in Luxembourg is one of the youngest in Europe. It was founded on 12th August 2003, making the University of Luxembourg the first and so far only state university in the Grand Duchy. Since then, only three private universities have been added. At the university, you can also study Luxembourgish studies. Apart from […]

Eisige Landschaft mit einigen Metallgebilden

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University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) on Spitsbergen

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University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) on Spitsbergen

Anyone studying or conducting research at UNIS needs to wrap up warm: the University Centre in Svalbard, or UNIS for short, is the northernmost educational institution in the world. It is located in Longyearbyen, the capital of the Norwegian archipelago of Spitsbergen – at 78° North. Accordingly, teaching and research are focused on Arctic studies. […]

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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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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.