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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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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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Nobel Roundabout

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Nobel Roundabout

There is no other place in the world where you can meet nine Nobel Prize winners at any given time. Only in Göttingen this is possible because so many Nobel Prize winners have studied or worked here. Some of them are even buried in the Göttingen City Cemetery. In their honour, the ‘Nobel Roundel’ was […]

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Corinth Canal

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Corinth Canal

No construction project in the world has probably taken longer: 1826 years had passed since the first sod was turned before the man-made Corinth Canal was completed. At just 24 metres wide, the channel separates the Greek mainland from the Peloponnese region. Corinth, a major trading centre in ancient times, is located there. However, the […]

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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 Fluss in einer kargen flachen Felsenlandschaft

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Silfra fissure

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Silfra fissure

Bathing where the world is created. This is roughly how people can experience the Silfra fissure in southwest Iceland. This is precisely where the Eurasian continental plate borders the North American plate – the origin of the volcanic island. Every year, these two plates move further apart, causing the Silfra fissure to grow. A diving […]

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Trinity College

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Trinity College

Dublin has had its own university for over 400 years. Trinity College was founded in 1592, when the Protestant English government sought to exert greater control over the kingdom. The university’s history is correspondingly eventful, and for a long time Catholics were not allowed to attend – the sometimes tense and historically often hostile relationship […]

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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.