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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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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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Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum

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Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum

With two Nobel Prizes, various awards and as a member of several scientific academies, Maria Skłodowska-Curie, better known as Marie Curie, is one of the most important women in science. The physicist became famous for discovering the elements polonium and radium and also coined the word ‘radioactive’. She is the only woman to have ever […]

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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Biodiversity in the Danube Delta

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Biodiversity in the Danube Delta

Great White Pelicans, monk seals, otters, red foxes, night herons, red-breasted geese and white-tailed eagles – the list of animals native to Romania’s Danube Delta is incredibly long. The biosphere reserve’s unique natural environment offers them a protected and diverse habitat: over 2,900 species of mammals, birds and insects have been counted in the delta. […]

Gebäude der Lettischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Riga. Credits: Lettische Akademie der Wissenschaften.

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Latvian Academy of Sciences

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Latvian Academy of Sciences

It is literally Latvia's highest scientific institution, housed in the country's frist skyscraper overseeing the historic capital.

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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.