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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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Old observatory in Bonn

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Old observatory in Bonn

Your own observatory. That was the promise with which the sovereign King Frederick William IV of Prussia enticed the astronomer Frederick William Argelander to Bonn in 1836. A few years later, construction began. For this, the astronomer joined forces with the university building inspector Peter Josef Leydel. Within four years, they had built the observatory […]

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Reindeer hunters in southern France

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Reindeer hunters in southern France

The former home of the reindeer hunters lies inconspicuously under a rock face near the village of Sergeac in the French department of Dordogne. Some 37,000 years ago, our ancestors lived under the rock shelter of Abri Castanet in southern France. It was probably members of the Aurignacian culture who decorated the ceiling of the […]

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 […]

Der weltberühmte Vulkan, der schon in alten Schriften beschrieben wurde. Credits: Unsplash/Samir Kharrat

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Mount Etna

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Mount Etna

The symbol of Sicily is a fire-breathing giant: Mount Etna (Italian: Etna). At around 3,323 metres above sea level, it is the highest active volcano in Europe, but also one of the highest in the world. Mount Etna sits on the eastern side of the island of Sicily and has four summit craters. Etna probably […]

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Delta Works

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Delta Works

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.