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.
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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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