GENERAL SCIENCE RESOURCES

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EARTH SCIENCE
GENERAL SCIENCE
HISTORY OF SCIENCE
MAGAZINES, NEWS AND TELEVISION
PHYSICS

EARTH SCIENCE

The Dynamic Earth
The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History presents this multimedia site on earth science with sections on gems, rocks, plate tectonics, and the solar system.
Earth Science World ImageBank
Earth science photographs from the American Geological Institute.
Exploring Earth
Earth Science site from the National Science Foundation with chapters on matter, surface changes, atmosphere, weather, oceans, space and earth's history.
Geology @ About.com
Links and related articles, covering caves, climate, dinosaurs, earthquakes, eruptions, evolution, extinction, fossils, gems, maps, geophysics, glaciers, craters, mineralogy, rocks, and volcanoes.  
Indiana University Molecular Structure Center
Information on molecules, crystals and minerals.
Microscopy
Index of site on the Web, covering specific magazines, projects, microscopes, slides, materials, 3D images, and online forums.
Visible Earth
This NASA site offers stunning photographs of the earth's surface from oceans to volcanoes to atmosphere.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Their site offers information on research projects, online expeditions, articles and educational opportunities.

GENERAL SCIENCE

Ask Dr. Science
Daily science questions plus search the Vault of Knowledge for more answers to questions.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
A great science site from the Berkeley Lab that features science news, a science magazine, and a wonderful discovery page called Did You Ever Wonder?
Bioethics
This site on "the moral implications of science, medicine and research" can be searched or browsed.  Topics include cloning and genetics, ER bioethics and assisted suicide.
Explorit
This site features science exhibitions, programs, quizzes, stumpers, and news.
How Things Work
Ask a question about how something works or browse or search previously asked ones.
The Lab
From the Australian Broadcasting Corporation comes this cool collection of science stuff.
MEDLINEplus: Cloning
The National Library of Medicine presents this site with general information and resources.
Microscope Imaging Station
This site from the National Center for Research Resources. The site contains research stories, a gallery of images, and creatures that have contributed to science.
Patent Cafe
Intellectual property reference site with legal and patent information for inventors.
PubMed
An archive of life science journals, including journals on genome biology, arthritis, breast cancer, critical care, cardiovascular medicine and plant physiology.
Questacon
From Canberra, Australia comes this great collection of online science exhibits.
Robots.net
The latest news on robots, robot competitions, components and more.
Sandlot Optical Illusions
Large, interactive collection of optical illusions.
SciNet
Science search engine and directory covering a wide variety of scientific areas.
SciScoop
A community blog that offers breaking science news and commentary on it. If you join as a member, you get the right to vote about which stories make the front page of the site as well as the RSS feed.
Science a GoGo
This site has the latest science news and a busy science discussion board.
ScienceDaily
Online magazine with the top science news on a wide variety of scientific subjects.
Science.gov
Portal for U.S. Government science information, with sections on agriculture, technology, astronomy, biology, computers, earth science, energy, environment, health, math, conservation, and education.
Sciencejobs
Updated weekly, this is a searchable collection of over 300 science jobs.
ScienceWorld
This site offers a huge amount of resources of specific science topics, including physics, chemistry, astronomy, mathematics and biographical information on scientists.
Spotlight on Science
A weekly online science newsletter offered by the Smithsonian.  You can register to be emailed when a new issue is released.
Ulysses Directory
Science search engines and information directories.

HISTORY OF SCIENCE

Inventors @ About.com
Links and related articles, covering famous inventors and inventions, avoiding scams, events, magazines, organizations, copyrights, patents, patent searches, and trademarks.

MAGAZINES, NEWS AND TELEVISION

Animal Planet
Bright Surf
Science news online.
Discover Magazine
Online version of the magazine with Web picks, selected features of the current issue, archives of past issues, breaking science news and more.
Discovery Channel
EurekAlert!
Comprehensive collection of up-to-date news releases about science, medicine and technology.
Exploration Network
Great site from the Canadian Discovery Channel.
HighWire Press
This site, from the Stanford University Libraries, is one of the largest resources for free full-text science articles online.  Search through the journals or simply browse.
National Geographic Channel
Nature
International journal of science with complete full-text articles available online.
New Scientist
The top science and technology news service online, this site offers news, opinions, and web site recommendations.
NOVA
Science facts and show excerpts.
Popular Science
Sci-Tech Library Newsletter
A newsletter from Stanford containing articles and web links of interest to those in science and technology.
ScienceDaily
Offers daily science news, complete with an RSS feed to subscribe to. You can read the latest news, sign up for email updates, and focus on specific sections and topics. The site also offers a science encyclopedia, health information center, and online videos.
Science Friday Online
Homepage for this National Public Radio program on science news.
Science News Online
Weekly science magazine with a database of full-text articles available online.
ScienceNOW
The latest science news. Updated daily.
Scientific American
Selections from the current issue plus previous issues, article summaries and scientific history.

PHYSICS

Einstein Archives Online
This site offers a digitized collection of Einstein's manuscripts, including his scientific and non-scientific writings and travel diaries. The site also provides a gallery that shows highlights from the collection of manuscripts.
PhysLink
 Offers the latest physics and astronomy news stories, discussion forums, job ads, ask the expert, directories of recommended sites, and much more.
Physics @ About.com
Links and related articles, covering news, dictionary, acoustics, atomic physics, biophysics, chaos, condensed matter, cosmology, electromagnetism, fluid dynamics, lasers, mechanics, nuclear physics, optics, particle physics, physicists, plasma physics, quantum physics, relativity, sport physics, superconductivity and thermodynamics.
PhysicsWeb
Latest physics news, resources, and jobs.
Radiation Protection Homepage
Information and links to related Internet sites.

Updated November 6, 2005.

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