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The Earth dome at the Apollo 50 Festival in Washington (DW/C. Bleiker)

Washington celebrates the moon landing

Space fans can learn all about the moon, Mars and NASA at a three-day event in the US capital. Whether you want to know about satellite imaging or be run over by a Mars rover — it's all there!  

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Fly us to the moon

A Berlin start-up has become part of today’s international race to the moon with its lunar rovers.  

The Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia. It helped receive film footage of the first moon landing in 1969 (Getty Images/I. Waldie)

When America landed, the whole world did

It was an American mission to land on the moon. But it would have been impossible without the rest of the world. The Apollo program relied on a global network of tracking stations and their engineers.  

Full moon in the night sky (picture-alliance/Arco Images/B. Lamm)

7 fun facts about the moon

50 years ago, humans landed on the moon for the first time. Since then, we have learned many, many things about our Earth's only satellite. Here are seven unusual pieces of lunar trivia.  

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Apollo's science experiments

What scientific discoveries were made by the Apollo missions?  

ESA Mond-Dorf (ESA/Foster + Partners)

Fly me to the moon - holidaying in space

On July 20, it will be 50 years since Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. Soon others could follow — even tourists. Comfort might be low, but the experience would be truly stellar.  

A health worker in protective gear works at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, Eastern Congo

Ebola outbreak in Congo

WHO declares international emergency

The UN's public health agency has warned that the possibility of the outbreak spreading across the region "remains very high." Health organizations have struggled to contain the outbreak in the conflict-stricken country.  

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Explained: Menstruation

Menstruation is an essential part of the female hormone cycle. What is it important for?  

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Send in the bots!

When a reactor malfunctions, what happens next? Join us at an Austrian "meltdown" as teams from Europe send in the bots.  

A Galileo satellite (picture-alliance/dpa/ESA/P. Carril)

Satellite navigation

Galileo out of action

The European satellite navigation system Galileo has partially failed. The operating company GSA already reported the first failure on July 11. The emergency SAR function, however, is still in operation.  

Snickers Schokoriegel (Imago)

Blue light triggers sweet tooth in rodents, study shows

Are you staring at your smartphone or computer screen for too long? Think twice about it! The blue light can trigger a craving for the sweet stuff — at least in rats.  

Space ship Hayabusa 2 before the background of asteroid Ryugu (picture-alliance/AP Photo/Jaxa)

Japanese space probe Hayabusa 2

Second Touchdown on asteroid Ryugu

Hayabusa 2 has landed on the asteroid and is collecting rocks and dust to take back home to Earth. Landing on a moving object in outer space is not an easy feat. Researchers are celebrating the achievement.  

Vega rocket before crashing (Ariane Space)

Arianespace

Vega rocket fails for the first time

A rocket carrying an observation satellite into space developed an "anomaly" and failed minutes after takeoff from South America. The European launch company Arianespace apologized for losing the payload.  

Symbolbild Faktencheck Faktenfinder Internet (picture-alliance/dpa/S. Steinach)

Did the moon landing actually happen?

Twelve astronauts have been on the moon thus far. And yet these lunar landings are often questioned. But who knows, maybe it never happened and nothing is as it seems?  

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How German tech helped get man to the moon

It's been 50 years since man first landed on the moon and technology made in Germany helped make that landing possible.  

Mond Armstrong und Aldrin mit US-Flagge (picture-alliance/Heritage Images/NASA/Oxford Science Archive)

The space race took humans to the moon

Neil Armstrong's first steps were preceded by a fast-paced technological race between the Soviet Union and the USA.  

German rocket expert Wernher Von Braun is shown Aug. 5, 1955, at the Pentagon in Washington

Von Braun - rocket engineer of the powerful

The moon landing in 1969 would not have been possible without this German rocket pioneer. In his past, however, von Braun had built a "miracle weapon" for Hitler's Germany that led to thousands of deaths.  

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Are humans well designed?

If you were to design us from scratch, would you do it differently? Some say parts of us are flawed.  

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Symbolbild Grundsatzurteil USA zur Patentierung menschlichen Erbguts (Fotolia/majcot)

Are humans well designed?

Deutschland Polizeiausbildung in Zeiten von Terror (picture-alliance/dpa/T. Frey)

Forensic DNA analysis for crime scenes

DNA-Model Doppelhelix (picture-alliance/dpa/A. Warmuth)

Molecular memory - the potential of DNA data storage

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Tomorrow Today - The Science Magazine

A test track for self-driving cards in Karlsruhe, Germany

Autonomous cars

When will our cars finally really drive us?

For years we have been talking about autonomous, self-driving vehicles. Yet we don't see them on the streets. But be patient, even if you can't see them, something is happening.  

Russian Proton-M booster with the Spektr-RG space observatory blasts off from the launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome

Russia launches German space telescope

Roskosmos has launched a German-Russian space telescope to replace Moscow's Hubble-like Spektr-R. The telescope will allow scientists to observe more than 100,000 galaxy clusters, marking "the beginning of a new era."  

Snowball the dancing sulphur-crested cockatoo (picture-alliance/AP Photo/The Times/C. Smith)

Shake your tail feather

Study finds cockatoos love to dance

Snowball, a sulphur-crested cockatoo, has shown that humans are not the only creatures who love to dance, a study found. Snowball has a diverse repertoire of 14 unique dance moves and loves to bop to a good beat.  

Mackenzie-Wölfe, Kanadische Wölfe | Canis lupus occidentalis (picture-alliance/imageBroker/M. Weber)

Radicalization: How empathy fuels conflicts

A glance at social media is telling: Insults, trolling and hatred seem to have become standard. It’s a clear case of not enough empathy, right? Not necessarily - more like too much.  

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Full moon and clouds

Spectrum: Do you want to live on the moon?

This will be the last decade where you can say, "There's no one on the moon right now." Join as we take a look at the coming barrage of lunar activity.  

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